Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased ratings for hip and ankle disabilities due to a need for additional development of the record.
The deciding factor: The examiner's failure to address aggravation in the opinions on secondary service connection, as well as an inadequate examination regarding functional ankylosis, constitute pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
- Claimed conditions
- right hip disability, left hip disability, right ankle disability, left ankle disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091593
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