Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for Dependency and Indemnity Compensation under 38 U.S.C. § 1318 to obtain additional private treatment records.
The deciding factor: A fully informed decision on whether the Veteran's cause of death is related to any service-connected disabilities requires the missing private treatment records.
- Claimed conditions
- Not specified in this decision
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 22, 2025
- Citation
- A25091295
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