The Board has granted service connection for current hearing loss in the left ear, but denied the claim for right ear hearing loss. The veteran's left ear hearing loss is considered to be of service origin.
The deciding factor: The VA audiologist concluded that the veteran's hearing loss was at least as likely as not created by acoustic trauma experienced during combat in 1953.
- Claimed conditions
- Hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 6, 2000
- Citation
- 0005993
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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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