The Board found that the evidence submitted since the June 1982 rating decision is not new and material, and thus does not serve to reopen the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The evidence did not relate to an unestablished fact necessary to substantiate the appellant's claim that her husband's death was related to his military service or a service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Respiratory arrest, Adult respiratory distress syndrome, Severe alcoholic pancreatitis
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 19, 2008
- Citation
- 0805617
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