Compensation for Disability Resulting From Hospitalization, Treatment, Examination, or Vocational Rehabilitation

This document amends Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning compensation for disability or death resulting from VA hospitalization, medical or surgical treatment, or examination. Previously, the regulations required that VA be at fault or that an accident occur to establish entitlement to compensation for adverse results of medical or surgical treatment. This rule deletes the fault-or-accident requirement and instead provides that compensation is not payable for the necessary consequences of proper treatment to which the veteran consented. This amendment is necessary to conform the regulations to a recent United States Supreme Court decision.