The appeal for service connection for chronic gastritis was denied due to the untimely filing of the Board Appeal request.
The deciding factor: Good cause has not been shown as to why the required action, filing a Board Appeal request, could not have been taken during the original period and could not have been taken sooner than it was.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic gastritis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- October 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25090330
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 622 · Granted: 17% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
This is a plain-language summary generated by AI from a public Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision. It can contain errors — always verify against the original. Read the original VA decision (opens in a new tab) using citation A25090330.
What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Use your own notice and decision stage. A remanded issue is not a final court-appealable denial. VA review guidance and CAVC filing instructions (U.S. federal; reviewed October 7, 2026).
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has determined that the VA decision on appeal is flawed due to inadequate medical opinions regarding the Veteran's claimed conditions and their relationship to his service. The claims are being remanded for further development.
- Whole decision: Granted
The Board has granted effective dates of August 11, 2023 for the grant of service connection for GERD, chronic gastritis, an acquired psychiatric disorder, and tinnitus.
- Whole decision: Dismissed
The Veteran's appeal for service connection on all listed conditions was dismissed due to the untimely filing of a Notice of Disagreement.
- Whole decision: Partly granted
The Board has denied service connection for COPD and remanded the issues of service connection for chronic gastritis and gastric hemorrhage due to pre-decisional duty-to-assist errors.
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