Board of Veterans’ Appeals decision 0304585
The deciding factor: The RO granted the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death on December 19, 2002 and assigned an effective date of January 1, 1995 based on a final Board decision from June 19, 1991.
- Claimed conditions
- Diabetes mellitus II, Traumatic encephalopathy
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 13, 2003
- Citation
- 0304585
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,555 · Granted: 19% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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