The Board denied the appellant's claims for service connection for the cause of her husband's death and entitlement to Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318, finding that there was no evidence linking the Veteran's cause of death to his military service or a service-connected disability.
The deciding factor: The Board determined that the Veteran's cause of death—cardiac arrest due to respiratory failure with renal failure—was not related to his military service and did not result from any service-connected disabilities, including those he had during his lifetime. The appellant's contentions regarding causation were deemed insufficiently probative.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, renal failure
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 3, 2010
- Citation
- 1033318
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- Remanded (sent back)
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