The Board has ordered the case to be remanded due to a need for additional development of evidence, including obtaining VA treatment records and reviewing a file review conducted by the Psychiatry Service at West Haven facility. The veteran's cause of death is attributed to acute mixed drug intoxication.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is needed to support the claim as it pertains to service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute mixed drug intoxication
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 4, 2001
- Citation
- 0124139
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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.
- Denied
The Veteran's cause of death was from acute mixed drug intoxication, which the Board found not related to his service. The appellant did not have a pending claim for accrued benefits at the time of her husband's death and filed her application over six years later. She also does not meet the income requirements for survivor’s pension.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that his death was due to alcohol and drug abuse rather than a service-connected condition.
- Denied
The Board found that the cause of the veteran's death, acute mixed drug intoxication, was not caused or worsened by VA treatment and denied dependency and indemnity compensation under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151.
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