The Board denied the appellant's application to reopen a previously disallowed claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that no new and material evidence had been submitted.
The deciding factor: No new and material evidence was presented to substantiate the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death.
- Claimed conditions
- pulmonary hemorrhage, pulmonary thrombosis, poor nutrition
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 11, 2015
- Citation
- 1510115
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