The Board remands the claim for service connection for psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis, to include as due to claimed PCB exposure, for further development and an addendum opinion.
The deciding factor: The VA opinions provided were found inadequate, and there is insufficient evidence of in-service PCB exposure to be verified.
- Claimed conditions
- psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25108008
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 882 · Granted: 22% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis, anxiety disorder with insomnia as secondary to psoriatic arthritis, and migraine headache disability as secondary to anxiety disorder.
- Partly granted
Service connection is granted for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.,The claim of service connection for psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis remains pending as it was remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the claims for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis due to lack of a VA examination and incomplete medical records. The Veteran's service connection claim for these conditions is being reviewed again.
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