The Board has reopened the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, but further evidence is needed to determine if his overdose was due to his service-connected disability or suicide.
The deciding factor: New evidence indicates a possible link between the veteran's service-connected condition and his death, but more information is required to confirm this relationship.
- Claimed conditions
- Heroin overdose, Paraplegia
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 11, 2007
- Citation
- 0713975
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