Vertigo & vestibular disorders decisions — 2025

The Board granted a 100 percent rating for PTSD and an effective date of July 5, 2018, for special monthly compensation (SMC) based on housebound criteria. Service connection was also granted for vertigo but denied for a vision disability.

The Board denied the Veteran's appeal for an increased disability rating in excess of 60 percent for a lung disability, characterized as COPD with vertigo and sleep apnea.

The Board granted service connection for temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) as secondary to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and granted a 10 percent rating for left hip limitation of extension, while denying other claims.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for earlier effective dates and higher ratings, except for restoring a 30 percent disability rating for right knee strain and a 20 percent disability rating for left knee strain.

The Board denied service connection for vertigo and remanded the claim for a psychiatric disability to include insomnia, PTSD, and anxiety due to insufficient evidence.

The Board granted service connection for chronic adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood but denied service connection for vertigo as secondary to tinnitus.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) as there is no credible evidence of a current disability, in-service incurrence or aggravation, and a causal relationship between the current disability and an in-service disease or injury.

The Board granted service connection for residuals of right hip joint replacement, left hip degenerative arthritis and residuals of joint replacement, and right and left knee degenerative arthritis. The claim for vertigo was denied.

The Board dismissed the Veteran's claims for earlier effective dates for the evaluations of migraine headaches and a vestibular disorder on the basis of clear and unmistakable error (CUE) because it lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate these claims.

The Board granted service connection for valvular heart disease and persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, but remanded the claims for residuals of bladder cancer and a prostate condition.

The Board granted service connection for migraines and vertigo as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected tinnitus, but remanded the claim for a right knee disability.

The Board remands the claims for further development due to a duty to assist error in not obtaining pertinent VA treatment records from 2012-2015.

The Board denied the Veteran's claims for service connection for a brain or ear tumor condition, including vestibular schwannoma, and left ear hearing loss as there was no persuasive evidence of a nexus between these conditions and active duty.

The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings and service connection, finding that the evidence did not support a higher rating or service connection for any of the claimed conditions.

The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, but remanded the claims for prostate cancer and vertigo for further development.

The veteran withdrew his appeals for service connection for vertigo and an increased disability rating for right knee arthritis, and the Board has no jurisdiction to review these issues.

The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and denied service connection for asthma. The issues of service connection for chronic rhinitis and vertigo, claimed as dizziness, are remanded.

The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for vertigo as new and relevant evidence was not submitted to show a current diagnosis of the condition.

The appeal for an earlier effective date for the 100 percent rating of Meniere's syndrome with eustachian-tube dysfunction was dismissed as a matter of law.

The Board denied a compensable rating for bilateral hearing loss and an earlier effective date for the award of service connection for bilateral hearing loss. The claims for service connection for left knee joint pain, right knee joint pain, mid and lower back pain (back pain), and vertigo were remanded.