The Board remands the claims for service connection for liver cancer, hypertensive vascular disease, kidney disease, and upper respiratory disability due to a duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary as the RO did not fulfill its duty to assist by not obtaining records that could potentially substantiate the Veteran's claim of exposure to Agent Orange during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Liver cancer, Hypertensive vascular disease, Kidney disease, Upper respiratory disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- Agent Orange / herbicides
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 8, 2024
- Citation
- A24064225
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 785 · Granted: 34% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A remand sends an issue back for more development, often a new examination or missing records. It does not award the benefit or decide the final outcome. The original decision explains the additional work ordered.
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- Dismissed
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Denied
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