The Board denied service connection for cause of the veteran's death and denied entitlement to dependency and indemnity compensation under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318 due to lack of evidence linking the causes of death to service.
The deciding factor: There was no competent evidence establishing a nexus between the causes of the veteran's death and service.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute myocardial infarction, Diabetes mellitus, Acute renal failure, Dehydration
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2003
- Citation
- 0335829
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- Dismissed
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