The veteran's widow is appealing the denial of service connection for her husband's cause of death, which was due to occlusive coronary artery disease. The appeal has been remanded multiple times in an attempt to locate military medical records from two German facilities.
The deciding factor: Military medical records have not been located at the identified facilities and the claim is being remanded again to try to obtain them.
- Claimed conditions
- occlusive coronary artery disease
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 27, 2005
- Citation
- 0528902
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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 remanded the case for further development, including obtaining treatment records from VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics in Newark and Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Granted
The Veteran's death was caused by occlusive coronary artery disease due to (or as a consequence of) coronary arteriosclerosis, with hypertension being a significant condition contributing to the cause. The VA examiner opined that it is at least as likely as not that the Veteran's hypertension increased while in service and contributed substantially or materially to his death.
- Denied
The veteran died due to occlusive coronary artery disease. At the time of his death, he did not have any service-connected disabilities and was not entitled to receive compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling.
- Denied
The Board has determined that the veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected condition, and thus denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
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