The Board has remanded the case due to inadequate development and compliance with prior remand directives. The claim will be reconsidered based on new evidence, including urinalysis reports from January 1999.
The deciding factor: The decision is being remanded because the duty to assist was not fully satisfied in previous remands.
- Claimed conditions
- Renal cell carcinoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2019
- Citation
- 19121898
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 961 · Granted: 20% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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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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