The veteran's appeal regarding service connection for dysthymia with personality disorder and paranoid traits was dismissed as he did not file a timely substantive appeal. The left ear hearing loss disability claim is granted.
The deciding factor: The veteran failed to file a timely substantive appeal on the issue of service connection for dysthymia with personality disorder and paranoid traits, as required by regulations.
- Claimed conditions
- dysthymia with personality disorder and paranoid traits, left ear hearing loss disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 29, 2001
- Citation
- 0102422
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
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Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a left ear hearing loss disability and remanded the issue of entitlement to service connection for a right ear hearing loss disability.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for a left ear hearing loss disability, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor and finding that it is at least as likely as not related to in-service noise exposure.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right ear hearing loss disability but denied it for left ear hearing loss disability.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right ear hearing loss disability but denied it for left ear hearing loss disability.
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