The veteran's claim for service connection for dizziness as being proximately due to his service-connected bilateral sensorineural hearing loss is remanded. The claim for an initial compensable rating prior to November 4, 2002 and a rating in excess of 20 percent from November 4, 2002 for the service connected bilateral hearing loss is also remanded.
The deciding factor: The VA medical opinions provided did not consider whether the service-connected hearing loss had aggravated the veteran's dizziness or if there was any aggravation attributable to the hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- dizziness, bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 27, 2006
- Citation
- 0602438
What this means for you
A remand is not a loss. The Board sent the case back for more development — often a new exam or missing records — before making a final decision. Many remands later end in a grant, and the decision spells out exactly what the Board wanted to see.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for dizziness to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing whether it is related to service or a service-connected disability.
- Partly granted
The Board dismissed the claim for service connection for headaches and remanded claims for service connection for various other conditions, including open angle glaucoma, sensorineural hearing loss, asthma, heart disease, bladder cancer, and squamous cell carcinoma.
- Partly granted
The Board granted restoration of a 20 percent rating for the service-connected lumbosacral strain, effective May 1, 2023. The other claims were denied.
- Partly granted
The Board dismissed the claim for service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and denied claims for right ankle calcaneal enthesopathy and left ankle calcaneal enthesopathy. The remaining claims were remanded for further development.
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