The Board denied the veteran's claim for service connection for dizziness (vertigo) as being proximately due to or the result of his service-connected bilateral hearing loss.
The deciding factor: Supportable medical evidence etiologically linking the veteran's dizziness to a service-connected disability has not been presented.
- Claimed conditions
- dizziness (vertigo)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 14, 2008
- Citation
- 0815911
What this means for you
A denial is a starting point, not the end of the road. You can see why this claim fell short — and, if you are still inside the one-year window, the appeal lanes that may remain open to you.
What you can do next
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