The Board has determined that a new VA opinion is needed to determine if the Veteran's service-connected disabilities and/or herbicide exposure were a principal or contributory cause of his death, as well as whether they aggravated his multiorgan systems failure.
The deciding factor: The current medical records are insufficient to make a determination on the cause of the Veteran’s death due to conflicting opinions regarding the role of service-connected conditions and herbicide exposure in causing the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- multiorgan systems failure
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- April 11, 2019
- Citation
- 19127676
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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