Hearing loss decisions — 2025

The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss to ensure a more adequate medical opinion is obtained.

The Board remands the issues of entitlement to an initial rating in excess of 30 percent for service-connected other specified trauma and stressor related disorder, and entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss due to further development.

The Board remands the claims for service connection for tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss to obtain an addendum medical opinion.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, on a secondary basis, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and dismissed the appeal seeking a higher rating for a low-back condition. The claim for service connection for GERD was remanded.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for an earlier effective date prior to April 17, 2023, for the grant of service connection for a psychiatric disability, hearing loss, and tinnitus.

The Board denied a compensable rating for the Veteran's right ear hearing loss based on the mechanical application of the rating schedule to the numeric designations resulting from audiometric testing.

The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, finding that the evidence does not support a finding of a nexus between the current disability and his military service.

The Board denied a rating in excess of 10 percent from March 9, 2016, for bilateral hearing loss on both schedular and extraschedular bases.

The Board granted service connection for left ear hearing loss, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor.

The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection to afford the Veteran an updated VA examination to evaluate and obtain an etiological opinion for the bilateral hearing loss.

The Board remands the claim for additional development, specifically to obtain an addendum medical opinion from a qualified endocrinologist or other specialist regarding whether the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss was caused and/or aggravated by his service-connected diabetes mellitus type II.

The appeal for service connection for bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, a thoracolumbar spine (low back) disorder, and bilateral lower extremity peripheral neuropathy is dismissed due to the Veteran not submitting an NOD within one year of the rating decision being mailed.

The appeal of entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss was dismissed as the Veteran and her representative withdrew the appeal.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and sweating syndrome due to the lack of evidence showing current disabilities that meet VA compensation criteria.

The appeal was dismissed due to the Veteran's death during the pendency of the appeal.

The Board granted service connection for right ear hearing loss and tinnitus, but denied service connection for pneumonia, a lung disability, an acquired psychiatric disability, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, deteriorating disc disease, left knee, right knee, left hip, and right hip disabilities. The Board also denied an increased rating for the Veteran's right shoulder degenerative arthritis and rotator cuff tear.,The decision is based on the evidence of record, which does not support a finding that any of the claimed conditions are related to service or otherwise caused by a service-connected condition.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for a higher rating and earlier effective date for migraine headaches, service connection for bilateral hearing loss, and service connection for vertigo.

The Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding no current disability and no evidence of a causal relationship to the Veteran's military service. The claims for back condition, right knee condition, left shoulder condition, and right shoulder condition were remanded.