The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining medical opinions and records. The appellant seeks service connection for the cause of her husband's death due to his service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded because new evidence needs to be considered and a medical opinion obtained regarding whether any service-connected disabilities contributed to the veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- Buerger's disease, anxiety reaction
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0601950
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.
- Dismissed
The Board denied the Veteran's motions to reverse or revise prior rating decisions on grounds of clear and unmistakable error (CUE), finding no such errors in the March 1971 and August 2004 decisions.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for a medical opinion from a physician specializing in environmental health and toxic exposures to address the etiology of the Veteran's Buerger's disease, specifically regarding its relation to service and exposure to Agent Orange.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case to obtain a medical opinion from a physician specializing in environmental health and toxic exposures regarding the etiology of the Veteran's Buerger's disease, specifically whether it is related to his service or exposure to Agent Orange.
- Partly granted
The Veteran was granted a 70 percent rating for anxiety reaction prior to April 25, 2016 and an effective date of January 2, 2009 for the grant of TDIU.
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