The Board has remanded the case due to a lack of proper communication with the appellant and the need to locate her current address. The claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran’s death is being reconsidered.
The deciding factor: The VA needs to contact the appellant to ascertain her current mailing address and re-send relevant correspondence to ensure proper communication.
- 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
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Decisions by this judge: 1,030 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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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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