The Board has determined that new and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, as the added medical records do not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
The deciding factor: The additional medical records provided since the previous final denial are cumulative or redundant of evidence previously of record and do not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim of service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- cardiorespiratory failure, kidney problems
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2013
- Citation
- 1329024
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Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board found no evidence linking the Veteran's causes of death to service or a service-connected disability, and thus denied the claim for service connection.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of the Veteran's cause of death, to include cardiorespiratory failure and stomach cancer, due to a duty to assist error in not ensuring an adequate medical opinion was obtained.
- Denied
The Veteran's cause of death, cardiorespiratory failure and COVID-19 pneumonia, is not etiologically related to his service or any exposure during service.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has found pre-decisional duty to assist errors and remanded the claims of entitlement to service connection for cause of death, DIC under 38 U.S.C. § 1318, and DIC under 38 U.S.C. § 1151 due to insufficient information in the record.
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