The Board finds that the veteran's service-connected schizophrenia contributed to his death, and grants service connection for the cause of his death. The issue of DIC under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1151 is dismissed as resolved by granting service connection.
The deciding factor: The service-connected psychiatric disability (schizophrenia) was shown to have likely contributed significantly in accelerating the veteran's demise, and therefore contributed substantially or materially to his death.
- Claimed conditions
- anoxic encephalopathy, schizophrenia (previously characterized as manic-depressive illness)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 3, 2006
- Citation
- 0634102
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