The Board denied the claim for service connection for cause of death and entitlement to Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) under the provisions of 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318 due to insufficient evidence regarding the cause of death.
The deciding factor: There was no known cause of death in the record, making it impossible to determine if service-connected disabilities contributed to the veteran's death or were related to his service.
- Claimed conditions
- pain disorder, neck pain due to an undiagnosed illness, headaches due to an undiagnosed illness, status post bunionectomy, both feet, low back pain with spondylolisthesis
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 24, 2006
- Citation
- 0605327
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