Remanded (sent back)
The Board of Veterans' Appeals is remanding the claims for further development to correct a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to make adequate attempts to obtain relevant private treatment records, which constitutes a pre-decisional duty to assist error that must be corrected on remand.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbar spine degenerative disc disease with spinal stenosis and herniated disc, radiculopathy, right lower extremity (femoral nerve) associated with lumbar spine degenerative disc disease with spinal stenosis and herniated disc
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 2, 2025
- Citation
- A25103612
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