The appeal for service connection of left eye vein occlusion with vision loss and neovascular glaucoma is dismissed due to the death of the appellant.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died during the pendency of his appeal, thus the Board has no jurisdiction to adjudicate the merits of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- left eye vein occlusion, neovascular glaucoma
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 17, 2019
- Citation
- 19178838
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 due to a lack of evidence showing that VA care caused his blindness in his left eye.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical opinions regarding whether the Veteran's right eye disability, including central retinal vein occlusion and neovascular glaucoma, was caused or aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for additional development, including obtaining updated treatment records and scheduling a VA examination to assess the Veteran's employability due to his service-connected right eye disability.
- Denied
The Veteran's additional disability, including blindness and other ocular conditions, is not deemed to be the result of carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment, or similar instance of fault on the part of VA medical personnel. The Board finds that compensation benefits pursuant to 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 are not warranted.
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