The Board denied the appellant's petition to reopen her claims for Dependents' Education Assistance (DEA) benefits and service connection for the Veteran's cause of death. The evidence submitted since the last denial was found to be insufficient to establish new and material evidence.
The deciding factor: The newly-submitted evidence did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claims, as it continued to show that the Veteran's diseases were pre-service in nature.
- Claimed conditions
- Liver disease, Colorectal cancer
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 13, 2010
- Citation
- 1025946
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