The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete records and a need for VCAA compliant notice.
The deciding factor: Incomplete service personnel and medical records, as well as the need for proper VCAA notification, necessitate further review of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Multiple blunt force injuries
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2008
- Citation
- 0838804
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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).
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Whole decision: Denied
The Board denied service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that no service-connected disability was a principal or contributory cause of his death.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Veteran died in a motor vehicle accident due to cocaine and ethanol abuse. Service connection for diabetes mellitus was in effect at the time of death, but there is no evidence linking his fatal condition to service-connected diabetes or any other service-related factor.
- Whole decision: Denied
The Board found that the Veteran's cause of death, multiple blunt force injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident, was not caused by any service-connected disability and denied both claims for service connection for the cause of death and DIC benefits under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318.
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