The Board denied the reopening of a claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that new and material evidence had not been submitted.
The deciding factor: The newly received evidence did not link any cause of death with service or establish a relationship between any service-connected disability and the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- cause of death (gastrointestinal bleeding, due to or as a consequence of esophageal varices, due to or as a consequence of Laennec's cirrhosis; and acute and chronic pancreatitis)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 23, 2010
- Citation
- 1023362
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What this means for you
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