The Board has determined that additional development is needed to ensure a complete record before deciding the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death. Specifically, the appellant needs to be provided with notice regarding her spouse's service-connected disabilities and a medical opinion on whether these conditions contributed to the Veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The Board found that additional development is necessary due to incomplete notice regarding the Veteran's service-connected disabilities and the need for a medical opinion on the cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- organic personality disorder, chronic posttraumatic headaches, cerebral trauma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 23, 2009
- Citation
- 0935928
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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
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- Denied
The Veteran's acquired psychiatric disorder, including anxiety and personality disorders, was denied increased ratings. Service connection for left and right leg disorders were also denied.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to an inextricably intertwined claim for TDIU, and the Veteran submitted a VA Form 9 indicating disagreement with the denial of this claim. The case is now returned to the RO for issuance of a Statement of the Case.
- Granted
The Board has determined that there was clear and unmistakable error in the RO's January 2003 decision assigning an effective date of September 27, 2001 for the grant of service connection for organic personality disorder and organic mood disorder due to closed head injury. The effective date is now set at April 22, 1968.
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