The Board concluded that a preponderance of the evidence is against the appellant's claim of entitlement to service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.
The deciding factor: The Veteran had no service-connected disabilities, and his alcohol abuse was not caused or aggravated by a service-connected disability. The evidence did not establish a nexus between the Veteran's liver disorders and service or exposure to pesticides in service.
- Claimed conditions
- Alcoholic liver cirrhosis, Chronic hepatitis encephalopathy
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2009
- Citation
- 0908858
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,319 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
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