The Board denied reopening the claim for service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death due to lack of new and material evidence, including information about exposure to herbicide agents during active military service.
The deciding factor: The submitted evidence was cumulative or redundant of previous records and did not raise a reasonable possibility of substantiating the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- multiorgan system failure, status post exploratory laparotomy and ulcer surgery, acute renal failure, massive duodenal ulcer bleeding, liver cirrhosis, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- How they argued it
- Reopened with new and material evidence
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 7, 2018
- Citation
- 18148244
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