The Board has found that the veteran's service-connected chronic labyrinthitis presents an exceptional or unusual disability picture due to marked interference with employment, warranting referral for extraschedular consideration.
The deciding factor: The veteran's service-connected chronic labyrinthitis produces at least marked interference with employment, as evidenced by his need to spend days bedridden and inability to work.
- Claimed conditions
- chronic labyrinthitis
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating
- Not verified here — check the original decision
- Decision date
- March 26, 2003
- Citation
- 0305725
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 3,038 · Granted: 30% (granted or partly granted, in the indexed decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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What you can do next
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
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- Whole decision: Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the issues of service connection for various disabilities, including psychiatric disability, erectile dysfunction, chronic labyrinthitis, pansinusitis, headache disability, low back disability, neck disability, left knee disability, right knee disability, and bilateral hip disability. The Veteran's claims are pending with the RO via the Appeals Management Center in Washington, D.C.
- Whole decision: Granted
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- Whole decision: Granted
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