The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinion regarding the cause of death and its relation to service-connected conditions.
The deciding factor: A more thorough VA medical opinion is needed to determine if there is a 50 percent or greater probability that the cause of the Veteran's death was related to his service-connected disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- renal cell carcinoma, amputation of the right arm at the level of the elbow, posttraumatic stress disorder, left shoulder internal derangement and arthritis of the acromioclavicular joint, lumbar strain with osteoarthritis of spinal facet joint and degenerative disc disease, radiculopathy of the right lower extremity associated with lumbar strain, radiculopathy of the left lower extremity associated with lumbar strain, surgical scarring on the right upper extremity
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2019
- Citation
- 19108776
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Decisions by this judge: 2,548 · Granted: 31% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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
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