Remanded (sent back)
The appeal for service connection for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea is remanded due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors by the AOJ.
The deciding factor: The examination reports and opinions addressing the Veteran's claimed COPD and sleep apnea are inadequate, as they failed to consider all relevant in-service exposures and did not address potential secondary service connection for sleep apnea related to other service-connected conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Sleep Apnea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25104924
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