The Board has denied the appellant's claims for DIC under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318 and service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that the Veteran did not meet any of the criteria in the applicable statute and regulation at the time of his death.
The deciding factor: The Veteran was not entitled to receive a 100 percent or total disability rating prior to April 25, 1963 or from September 1, 1963 to November 3, 1963. Therefore, he did not meet the criteria for DIC under 38 U.S.C.A. § 1318.
- Claimed conditions
- postoperative bilateral varicose veins, traumatic neuroma of the left femoral nerve, chronic lumbosacral strain superimposed on osteoarthritis, injury to the left femoral nerve with paralysis and parasthesia of the left leg, sinusitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 22, 2010
- Citation
- 1044005
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