The veteran's appeal is being remanded to the RO for scheduling an RO hearing before a hearing officer and a Board hearing. The case will be returned to the Board after these hearings.
The deciding factor: The veteran requested hearings but has not yet completed either request, necessitating their rescheduling.
- Claimed conditions
- acute glomerulonephritis, scarlet fever
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 23, 2004
- Citation
- 0410476
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,440 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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 insufficient detail in a previous VA medical opinion regarding whether malaria or scarlet fever during service contributed to the Veteran's death. The case must be returned for further evaluation.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for scarlet fever and a heart disability based on new and relevant evidence, but remanded the claims of entitlement to service connection for scarlet and/or rheumatic fever and a heart disability.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for scarlet fever as there is no current diagnosis of scarlet fever and the evidence does not show a disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by active service.
- Partly granted
The Board has granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and has remanded the issue of whether the Veteran had a diagnosis of scarlet fever at any time during the period on appeal.
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