Ex parte Balch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that VA erred because the nature of its questions suggested an answer and impermissibly narrowed the examiner's field of inquiry
• holding that the RO's request to a VA medical examiner to \feel free to refute the private physician's report\ was fatally flawed and compromised the fairness of the adjudication process
• holding that VA's solicitation of a medical opinion from an orthopedic specialist suggesting that the specialist refute a private physician's report was improper and compromised the fairness of the adjudication process
• VA's instruction that an examiner was free to refute a positive linkage opinion compromised the fairness of the adjudication process

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