The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient medical evidence and requests for private treatment records. The cause of death is hemorrhagic stroke and hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, but no service connection can be established as there are no relevant exposure or service records.
The deciding factor: Insufficient medical evidence and missing service records prevent the establishment of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- hemorrhagic stroke, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2024
- Citation
- 24004340
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Decisions by this judge: 907 · Granted: 35% (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.
What you can do next
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