The Board has remanded the case due to the need for a VA examination to determine if the Veteran has a current bilateral ear disorder and whether it is related to his active military service.
The deciding factor: The evidence does not provide sufficient information to make a decision on the claim without a medical opinion regarding the etiology of any current bilateral ear disability.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral ear disorder
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 14, 2011
- Citation
- 1145742
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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.
- Denied
The Board denied the Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral ear disorder, finding no current diagnosis of such condition and noting that his complaints do not amount to functional impairment related to a diagnosed bilateral ear disorder.
- Partly granted
The Board denied service connection for a dental disorder and bilateral ear disorder, while remanding claims for service connection for low back, neck, right finger, left shoulder, and right shoulder disorders.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board has decided to remand the service connection claims for neck, back, right shoulder, left leg skin, testicular skin, and bilateral ear disorders due to outstanding inpatient clinical treatment records from Tripler Army Medical Center.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Veteran's claim for service connection for a bilateral ear disorder was denied as there is no evidence of a current disability at the time of his death.,Service connection for sinusitis was granted, with the examiner noting that the Veteran had chronic sinusitis during service and provided sufficient documentation to establish a nexus.
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