The Board has determined that additional development is needed to properly address the Veteran's death and its cause, including obtaining an autopsy report.
The deciding factor: Additional evidence is required to determine whether the Veteran's conditions contributed to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- massive gastrointestinal bleeding, multiple peptic ulcers of the stomach, sepsis due to septic arthritis of the knee
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 30, 2009
- Citation
- 0916207
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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 Veteran's death was not caused by, or substantially or materially contributed to by, any disability incurred in or aggravated by active service.
- Denied
The Board denied the appellant's request to reopen her claim of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death, finding that new and material evidence had not been received.
- Denied
The veteran's death was not caused by any service-connected disability, and his service did not meet the basic eligibility requirements for VA nonservice-connected death pension benefits.
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