Arakaki v. State Farm Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that duty to assist was breached because RO failed to secure records that were potentially relevant
• holding that where “Board’s contrary and unsupported medical findings cannot stand” for failure to adequately account for favorable medical evidence, appropriate remedy is to vacate BVA decision and remand the claim
• vacating and remanding claim where appellant’s favorable medical evidence characterized his claim as merely “plausible”
• remand necessary where record on appeal “lacks potentially relevant, specific, and pertinent evidence which could reveal information essential to the determination” of the claim

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