Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the case for additional development to obtain private medical records from a closed facility for treatment rendered in 1975.
The deciding factor: The failure to attempt to obtain what are most probably nonexistent records was an error in VA's duty-to-assist.
- Claimed conditions
- psychiatric disability
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 10, 2025
- Citation
- 25013846
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