The Board has granted the veteran's claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and secondary service connection for right hip disability and left hip disability, both related to his service-connected residuals of bilateral calcaneal fractures. The effective date is not specified.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner found that the veteran’s current hip disabilities were likely due to his service-connected residuals of bilateral calcaneal fractures and the noise exposure during his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss, right hip disability, left hip disability
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 10, 2006
- Citation
- 0604022
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
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