The Board has determined that further development is necessary before the claim can be fully adjudicated, including providing appropriate notice to the Appellant and considering all submitted evidence.
The deciding factor: Further development is required as the current record does not provide sufficient information for a determination on whether service-connected conditions contributed to the Veteran's death or if there was any other cause of death.
- Claimed conditions
- self-inflicted gunshot wound
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 8, 2011
- Citation
- 1122113
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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 VA carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA. The Board denied DIC benefits as there is no evidence that the Veteran's death resulted from an event not reasonably foreseeable.
- Denied
The Veteran's death was ruled as a suicide, and there is no evidence to support the claim that his death was caused by any service-connected condition.
- Granted
The Board has granted an effective date of October 20, 1981 for the award of compensation for self-inflicted gunshot wound residuals as secondary to PTSD.
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