The Board remands the matter for additional development, including obtaining missing documents and an addendum medical opinion.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors, specifically the failure to ensure all pertinent documents were made part of the record prior to denying the Veteran's claim and the inadequacy of the VA examiner's opinion regarding direct service connection based on the Veteran's assertion that headaches began during service.
- Claimed conditions
- headaches/migraines
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25015886
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