The Board has determined that new and material evidence was not received to reopen the appellant's claim of service connection for the cause of her husband's death, which resulted from carbon monoxide poisoning due to suicide.
The deciding factor: The provided evidence did not establish a causal link between the veteran's period of active service and his death by carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Claimed conditions
- carbon monoxide poisoning, fibrinous pleurisy, early portal cirrhosis of the liver
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 3, 2008
- Citation
- 0800169
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