The VA's decision grants dependency and indemnity compensation benefits for the cause of the veteran's death under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151, as it existed before October 1, 1997, due to an infection acquired in connection with a surgical liver biopsy performed by VA.
The deciding factor: The death was not a 'necessary consequence' of the liver biopsy and the proximate cause of death was an event that was not reasonably foreseeable.
- Claimed conditions
- Metabolic acidosis of unknown etiology, Staphylococcal septicemia
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 29, 2002
- Citation
- 0210838
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