Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for a neurocognitive disorder, to include as secondary to the service-connected bilateral hearing loss disability and/or tinnitus, due to an inadequate VA opinion.
The deciding factor: The October 2024 and January 2025 opinions are inadequate to support a decision on the claim because they were based on proximate causation rather than but-for causation, did not provide a separately articulated opinion regarding aggravation, and did not address all documented exposures.
- Claimed conditions
- Neurocognitive disorder, to include Alzheimer's disease and vascular and/or organic dementia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- Camp Lejeune water
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098322
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