Benefits are not payable for disabilities resulting from commission or attempt to commit a felony, or to which a contributing cause was your being engaged in an illegal occupation; war or act of war (declared or not); or military service for any country engaged in war or other armed conflict; or by an intentionally self-inflicted injury.
NSB stated that a contributing cause was the previous year's mild winter, which made it impossible to test the trains in extreme weather.
Particularly for cancers in which therapy has been successful, the certifying doctor may consider that the cancer, though appropriate to certify as a contributing cause, was not the underlying cause of death.
It is commonly thought that overall life expectancy is reduced among BRCA mutation carriers; however, no accurate estimates of this reduction exist, and the contributing cause is thought to be mainly breast and ovarian cancer [14], [15].
One possible contributing cause is continuity problems in primary care, with GPs working on short-term contracts.
The effects of LBA are well understood, even though the significance of contributing causes is often difficult to determine.
Therefore, causes of death were based upon data from the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, where a distinction between immediate and contributing causes was not possible.
Other contributing causes were also noted, including the failure of Captain Smith to slow the Titanic after receiving ice warnings.
One of the contributing causes was Conant's faulty test procedures.
Contributing causes were geologic faulting in the area, blast vibrations from the mines, and erosion that may have been exacerbated by vegetation-killing smelter smoke.
Measures directed against only some of the aetiologies in an individual are particularly likely to fail if RCPF is a major pathogenetic pathway, since RCPF is unlikely to be reversed unless all of its contributing causes are corrected.
