The Board has determined that the veteran's left ear hearing loss disability is related to his active military service and grants entitlement to service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The VA audiological evaluation demonstrated a worsening of the veteran's hearing acuity during service, which was considered as evidence of in-service noise exposure leading to current hearing loss.
- 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
- January 14, 2004
- Citation
- 0401344
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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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