Remanded (sent back)
The Board remanded all issues to the AOJ for further development and opinions, including VA examinations.
The deciding factor: The Board found pre-decisional duty to assist errors by the AOJ in requesting VA examinations and medical opinions.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, hypertension, diabetes mellitus type II, acquired psychiatric disorder, to include posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and adjustment disorder, lumbosacral strain, to include pain and degenerative disc disease, left hip condition, to include pain and arthritis, right hip condition, to include pain and arthritis, left knee condition, to include pain and arthritis, right knee condition, to include pain and arthritis, gout, to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, left lower extremity radiculopathy to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities, right lower extremity radiculopathy to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected disabilities
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2025
- Citation
- A25001828
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