The Board remands the claims for service connection for residuals of left and right hip injuries due to a failure by VA to provide proper notice of the Veteran's right to a pre-decisional hearing.
The deciding factor: Remand is required to correct an AOJ error in satisfying a regulatory duty regarding notification of the Veteran's right to a pre-decisional hearing.
- Claimed conditions
- Residuals of a left hip injury, Residuals of a right hip injury
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 18, 2025
- Citation
- A25109334
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 857 · Granted: 35% (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.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded the issues of service connection for residuals of a pelvic injury, back injury, left hip injury, and head injury, as well as the issue regarding whether the injuries were due to willful misconduct.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claims to reopen the issues of entitlement to service connection for residuals of a back injury, neck injury, right hip injury, and left hip injury as new and material evidence was not submitted.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for residuals of spinal cord, left hip, bilateral knee, right shoulder, right elbow, and left ankle injuries as there was no competent medical evidence indicating that these conditions were causally or etiologically related to the veteran's active service.
- Partly granted
The veteran's service connection for PTSD was granted, while the claims for residuals of a right hip injury and pelvis injury were denied. The claim for an increased evaluation for a right ulnar nerve injury remained at 40 percent.
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