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
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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A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot.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.
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