The Veteran's claims for service connection for various arm and hand injuries are being remanded due to a failure to provide proper notice.
The deciding factor: The AOJ failed to provide the Veteran with the required notice under 38 U.S.C. § 5103, which is necessary to substantiate her claims for service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- right arm injury with residual weakness, left arm injury with residual weakness, right hand weakness, left hand weakness
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2026
- Citation
- A26011230
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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 has decided to remand the case due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors and requires additional medical examination and opinion for diabetes mellitus type II.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to incomplete service treatment records and conflicting medical opinions regarding the cause of his disabilities. The AOJ is instructed to obtain missing service treatment records, arrange new examinations, and request a new medical opinion.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient development of evidence for the increased rating claim for left thumb disability. The service connection claim for left hand weakness is still pending and will be addressed in a later decision.
- Denied
The Veteran's claim for service connection for diabetes mellitus type II was denied. The ratings for left hand weakness and residuals of left index finger amputation were also denied, but the Veteran received a 10 percent rating for his left index finger scar effective February 29, 2012. He is now receiving TDIU benefits.
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