The Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection for the cause of her husband's death, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen the claim. The March 1994 decision was based on a lack of evidence relating the Veteran's fatal conditions to active service or his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinion provided in December 2009 determined there was no significant disabling pulmonary disease that would have rendered the Veteran materially less capable of resisting the effects of other disease primarily causing his death (colon cancer).
- Claimed conditions
- cause of death (not specified)
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 4, 2010
- Citation
- 1029248
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What this means for you
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