The Board has remanded the case due to deficiencies in prior notice and procedural issues, including a lack of service connection for any disabilities at the time of the Veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The decision was remanded due to inadequate previous notice regarding how to substantiate the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death on the basis of direct and secondary service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- prolonged shock, anoxia, multiple trauma, hemorrhage, suffocation, crush injury by burial under fertilizer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 17, 2010
- Citation
- 1005785
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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 the Veteran's claim for service connection for his cause of death, finding that there was no evidence linking any of the listed conditions to his military service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical evidence and missing hospital records. They need to determine if type II diabetes caused or contributed to death, and whether the Veteran's death was caused by active service, a service-connected disability, or type II diabetes.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for various conditions including fibromyalgia, malaria, brucellosis, Coxiella burnetii, chronic fatigue syndrome, mycobacterium tuberculosis, sleep apnea, angina pectoris, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), amyloidosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chloracne, and hemorrhage as there is no probative evidence of current disabilities for any period on appeal.
- Denied
The Veteran's death was not caused by a service-connected disability, and there were no due but unpaid benefits at the time of his death. The claim for accrued benefits is denied.
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