The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of proper communication with the appellant and for further development. The claim will be reconsidered as new service records have been associated.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to locate the appellant and re-send correspondence regarding her claims.
- Claimed conditions
- Adenocarcinoma, Pulmonary embolism
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2019
- Citation
- 19184364
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
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
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- Denied
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- Partly granted
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