The Board remands the claims for further development and verification of the Veteran's periods of active duty service, active duty training, and inactive duty training.
The deciding factor: The Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases in its decision due to not verifying the Veteran's periods of active duty service as instructed by the parties in their September 2018 JMPR.
- Claimed conditions
- cause of the Veteran's death
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 31, 2024
- Citation
- 24032459
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.
- Denied
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board of Veterans' Appeals is remanding the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to an error by the agency of original jurisdiction in failing to provide notice of the right to a pre-decisional hearing.
- Dismissed
The appeal for service connection for astrocytoma glioblastoma of the brain and the cause of the Veteran's death was dismissed due to a procedural defect in the modernized review system.
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