The Board has granted service connection for left ear hearing loss disability, finding that the veteran's current hearing loss is attributable to his service. The issue of an initial compensable evaluation for right ear hearing loss disability remains pending.
The deciding factor: Service medical records showed a shift in the veteran's left ear hearing during service, which was clinically significant and represented a 'loss of hearing' in the left ear.
- Claimed conditions
- left ear hearing loss disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- August 18, 2003
- Citation
- 0320544
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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
Related decisions
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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