The Veteran's death from leukemia complications is granted as service connection for the cause of death is established due to presumed exposure to herbicides in Vietnam.
The deciding factor: Service connection is granted based on presumed exposure to herbicides, which is linked to the Veteran's CML and subsequent death.
- Claimed conditions
- Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CML)
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- Burn pits / airborne hazards
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 8, 2020
- Citation
- 20001772
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Decisions by this judge: 1,037 · Granted: 21% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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- Dismissed
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- Granted
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