The Board has reopened the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to new and material evidence. However, the claim remains not well-grounded as there is no evidence linking the veteran's death to his service-connected anxiety disorder or his POW experience.
The deciding factor: The medical records do not provide sufficient evidence to establish a causal relationship between the veteran's death and either his service-connected anxiety disorder or his POW experience.
- Claimed conditions
- Coronary insufficiency, Arteriosclerosis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 15, 2000
- Citation
- 0021603
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