The Board is remanding the case to gather additional evidence and review by a VA neurologist, including service records and post-service clinical assessments. The appellant must provide any relevant medical records she has.
The deciding factor: The appeal involves determining whether new and material evidence supports reopening the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to ALS.
- Claimed conditions
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0335889
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's PLS, a variant of ALS, is granted as service connected. The Board found sufficient evidence to presume that PLS developed due to service.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's service-connected disabilities do not meet the criteria for specially adapted housing or a special home adaptation grant due to lack of permanent and total disability, loss of use of extremities, or other qualifying conditions.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Veteran's ALS was granted service connection throughout the appeal period.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran's claim for an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for ALS was denied as the earliest possible effective date is July 1, 2024.
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