The Board has remanded the veteran's claims for service connection due to insufficient VCAA notice, and will need to provide proper notification before re-adjudicating the issues.
The deciding factor: The case must be remanded because the provided VCAA notice was inadequate and did not comply with the requirements set forth in Kent v. Nicholson.
- Claimed conditions
- prostate gland, heart murmur
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 19, 2006
- Citation
- 0611194
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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 Board denied service connection for high cholesterol (hyperlipidemia) and remanded the claims for diabetes, hypertension, skin pigmentation, heart murmur, hip replacement, and left leg injury to include a left ankle and left knee condition due to insufficient evidence.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a heart murmur as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected non-rheumatic aortic stenosis with coronary artery disease.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that her stress fractures of the calcaneal bones were no more than moderate in severity and that she did not have a current right shoulder disability. The claims for service connection for angioedema, hives, abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, heart murmur, migraine headaches, allergic rhinitis, left ankle disability, and prolapsed rectum were remanded for further development.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for sclerosis and remanded the claims for heart murmur, left knee osteoarthritis, right knee osteoarthritis, and psoriatic arthritis due to a lack of current diagnosis or evidence linking these conditions to the Veteran's service.
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