The Board has dismissed the appeals regarding service connection for various conditions as the Veteran died during the appeal process.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's death made it impossible to adjudicate the merits of the claims due to lack of jurisdiction.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral loss of sight, amputation of left leg, diabetic left foot ulcer, diabetic right foot ulcer
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 26, 2021
- Citation
- 21004188
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
- Granted
The Veteran's diabetes mellitus, type II and hypertension are granted as presumptively due to herbicide agent exposure under the PACT Act.,Diabetic left foot ulcer is granted as secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II.,Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is granted as secondary to service-connected diabetes mellitus, type II.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the service connection claims for bilateral hearing loss, bilateral vision loss, colon condition, hypertension, cognitive disorder, and thyroid disorder due to outstanding private treatment records and a need for a medical opinion regarding their relationship to the Veteran's bladder cancer.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's death claim for service-connected benefits was denied, and the Appellant is seeking burial benefits in an amount exceeding $2000. The Board has determined that these matters are intertwined with her request to be substituted as a claimant, so they must be remanded.
- Granted
The Veteran's service-connected peripheral neuropathy of the right lower extremity has been rated at 30 percent since March 26, 2012.,The Veteran's service-connected peripheral neuropathy of the left lower extremity has been rated at 30 percent since September 27, 2005.,The Veteran's service-connected peripheral neuropathy of the right upper extremity (dominant) has been rated at 30 percent since March 26, 2012.,The Veteran's service-connected peripheral neuropathy of the left upper extremity (non-dominant) has been rated at 20 percent since September 27, 2005.
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