The Veteran's death was not caused by VA treatment, and the proximate cause of his death was not due to carelessness, negligence, lack of proper skill, error in judgment or similar instance of fault on the part of VA.
The deciding factor: VA medical treatment did not result in the Veteran's death, and there is no evidence that VA failed to exercise the degree of care expected from a reasonable health care provider.
- Claimed conditions
- Acute coronary insufficiency, Mild congestive heart failure
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 7, 2013
- Citation
- 1307702
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