The Board denied the appellant's request for an earlier effective date of July 13, 2004 for service connection for cause of the Veteran's death due to a liberalizing change in the law regarding presumptive service connection for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma becoming effective on February 6, 1991. The appellant's claim was received more than one year after this effective date.
The deciding factor: The appellant's request for an earlier effective date prior to July 13, 2004 was denied because the liberalizing change in the law regarding presumptive service connection for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma became effective on February 6, 1991 and her claim was received more than one year after this effective date.
- Claimed conditions
- cause of death
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 6, 2010
- Citation
- 1037731
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