The Board has denied the appellant's request to reopen her claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that no new and material evidence was submitted since the March 2008 denial.
The deciding factor: The newly submitted evidence is cumulative and redundant, and does not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- Cystitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 16, 2016
- Citation
- 1647070
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