The Board has remanded the case due to incomplete medical records and a need for a new VA opinion regarding the Veteran's cause of death.
The deciding factor: Incomplete medical records prevented a thorough evaluation, and a new opinion is needed to determine if the Veteran was exposed to herbicide agents or toxic burning chemicals during service and whether this contributed to his frontotemporal dementia.
- Claimed conditions
- Frontotemporal dementia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19103113
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.
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