Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for a right and left shoulder disability due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error in the adjudication process.
The deciding factor: The medical opinion obtained was inadequate as it discounted competent lay reports without addressing their credibility or significance, failed to provide a reasoned analysis of alternative etiologies, and improperly relied on silence in the service records.
- Claimed conditions
- right shoulder disability, left shoulder disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 17, 2025
- Citation
- A25108762
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