The Board has reopened the appellant's claim for service connection for the Veteran's cause of death due to new evidence showing a link between his active service and his fatal liver disease. The claim is granted.
The deciding factor: New medical records show that the Veteran had symptoms related to his shrapnel wound residuals, which may have contributed to his development of hepatitis C and subsequent liver failure.
- Claimed conditions
- Intra-abdominal sepsis, Liver failure (Child's C Cirrhosis)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 6, 2009
- Citation
- 0942422
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
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- Remanded (sent back)
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- Granted
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