The Board has remanded the Veteran's claims for service connection due to contaminated water exposure at Camp Lejeune, including for a psychological condition and Hepatitis C. The VA is instructed to obtain additional treatment records and provide supplemental medical opinions addressing causation or aggravation of these conditions.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to gather more evidence and provide expert opinions on the nature and etiology of the Veteran's psychological condition and Hepatitis C, including whether they are related to service-connected liver cancer or exposure at Camp Lejeune.
- Claimed conditions
- Liver condition (including Hepatitis C), Psychological condition
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 30, 2019
- Citation
- 19158740
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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.
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