The veteran's claim for service connection for an ear disability is being remanded due to the need for additional medical examination.
The deciding factor: There is insufficient evidence regarding whether the veteran's current ear disability had its onset in or is related to his military service.
- Claimed conditions
- ear disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 21, 2008
- Citation
- 0835989
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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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for tinnitus and remanded the claims for an ear disability, headaches, chronic back pain, and chronic right shoulder pain for further development.
- Partly granted
The Veteran's claims for service connection for hearing loss and tinnitus were denied. The claims for an initial compensable rating for rhinitis, service connection for ear disability, and pes planus bilateral were remanded.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for both an ear disability and a neck disability because there is no evidence of a current diagnosis or symptoms related to these conditions.
- Dismissed
The Veteran's claims for service connection have been dismissed as the evidence does not support a finding of in-service onset or continuity of symptoms for any of the claimed conditions.
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