The Board remanded the case for further development, and after that, the AMC granted service connection for the veteran's hearing loss disability of the right ear. However, no appeal was filed.
The deciding factor: No notice of disagreement or substantive appeal was submitted following the grant of service connection.
- Claimed conditions
- hearing loss disability of the right ear
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- September 11, 2006
- Citation
- 0628834
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 684 · Granted: 25% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Granted
Service connection for tinnitus and hearing loss disability of the right ear is granted.,The appeal to reopen service connection for hearing loss in the left ear, as well as service connection for an acquired psychiatric disability (including PTSD) are remanded.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has remanded the case for further development due to the Veteran's failure to report for a VA examination. The claim will be reconsidered after the additional development is completed.
- Granted
The Veteran's right ear hearing loss disability is due to noise exposure during service and has been granted service connection.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's current bilateral tinnitus resulted from disease or injury in service, and new and material evidence has been received to reopen the claim for hearing loss disability of the right ear.
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