The Board has determined that the appellant's claim for an earlier effective date for service connection for the cause of her husband's death is not merited, as she did not submit a valid claim within one year prior to his death and no legal basis exists for such a retroactive award.
The deciding factor: The appellant failed to file a timely application or provide sufficient evidence to establish entitlement to an earlier effective date for service connection for the cause of her husband's death.
- Claimed conditions
- confluent bronchopneumonia, carcinoma of the lung with metastases to the brain
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2004
- Citation
- 0400511
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