The Veteran's appeal for a compensable disability rating for service-connected residuals of bladder cancer is dismissed due to the death of the appellant.
The deciding factor: The Veteran died during the pendency of the appeal, and as a matter of law, appellants' claims do not survive their deaths.
- Claimed conditions
- residuals of bladder cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 19, 2021
- Citation
- 21003175
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's appeal for service connection for residuals of bladder cancer is dismissed as the claim has been granted. The issues of service connection for colon and lung cancers are remanded due to a duty-to-assist error.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for a rating in excess of 10 percent for residuals of bladder cancer is dismissed because the March 2025 rating decision was a purely ministerial implementation of the March 2025 Board decision.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of bladder cancer and erectile dysfunction as secondary to the now service-connected bladder cancer.
- Granted
The Veteran is entitled to an effective date of March 13, 2012, for his claim of entitlement to service connection for residuals of bladder cancer.
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