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.
The deciding factor: The Veteran failed to attend the scheduled VA examination and provided good cause for his absence.
- 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 23, 2014
- Citation
- 1442612
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a right ear hearing loss disability and residuals of a head injury, finding that the pre-existing conditions were not aggravated by the veteran's active duty.
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