The Board found that the Veteran's cause of death, respiratory insufficiency and multiple hepatic metastases, was not related to service-connected disabilities. The issue of nonservice-connected death pension is addressed in the REMAND portion of the decision.
The deciding factor: Service connection for the cause of death could not be established as there were no service-connected disabilities at the time of death.
- Claimed conditions
- respiratory insufficiency, multiple hepatic metastases
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 25, 2016
- Citation
- 1633632
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