The Board has reopened the claim for service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disorder and granted it. The cervical spine condition claim is not well-grounded.
The deciding factor: New evidence submitted by the veteran, including medical opinions linking his current hearing loss to service, was found sufficient to reopen the claim. However, there is no competent medical evidence connecting the cervical spine condition to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral Hearing Loss Disorder, Cervical Spine Condition
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 12, 2000
- Citation
- 0024130
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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.
What you can do next
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