The Board denied the veteran's claim for an increased rating for his service-connected defective hearing of the left ear, finding that the evidence did not support a grant of a compensable evaluation.
The deciding factor: The objective evidence from audiometry tests did not support the assignment of a compensable rating for the veteran's hearing loss in the left ear.
- Claimed conditions
- Defective hearing of the left ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 18, 2001
- Citation
- 0101410
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- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded both claims due to the need for a supplemental VA opinion regarding whether the Veteran's right ear hearing loss disability is aggravated by his service-connected left ear hearing loss disability. The claims are also inextricably intertwined and must be addressed together.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's defective hearing in the left ear is at least as likely as not related to exposure to acoustic trauma during military service, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
- Granted
The Board has determined that the veteran's defective hearing of the left ear is due to injury incurred in service and grants service connection for this condition.
- Denied
The Board denied the veteran's claims for increased ratings for his service-connected lumbar myositis, psychoneurosis and conversion hysteria, residuals of shrapnel wounds of the left thigh and pelvis with retained foreign bodies and scars, and residuals of shell fragment wounds of the right thigh and left leg. The veteran was also denied entitlement to a total disability rating based on individual unemployability due to service-connected disabilities.
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