The Board has granted the appellant's eligibility as a surviving spouse for DIC benefits and has also granted her petition to reopen service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding new evidence sufficient to meet the criteria for reopening.
The deciding factor: New regulations provide for a presumption of service connection for ALS when developed any time after service, which is applicable in this case as the appellant's second husband died on May 2006, and the Veteran died from ALS in March 1972.
- Claimed conditions
- ALS
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 18, 2011
- Citation
- 1110909
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