Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of the cause of the Veteran's death due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist omission, requiring an addendum medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion is not entirely adequate as it does not address all necessary questions regarding the Veteran's sudden cardiac death and his service-connected narcolepsy.
- Claimed conditions
- Sudden cardiac death
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25096327
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