Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for further development, including obtaining informed consent documents and records from a community care referral.
The deciding factor: Informed consent documents are missing, and records from a community care referral are not available, necessitating a remand to ensure proper review of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Disability resulting from a June 16, 2022 laparoscopic bilateral inguinal hernia repair with mesh
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25090311
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