The Board found that there is no evidence of an in-service injury or event causing a right knee disability. The Veteran's private physician stated the hearing loss may be related to noise exposure during service, but this was not sufficient to establish service connection as VA does not presume such conditions for ACDUTRA. Therefore, the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss is denied.
The deciding factor: The Board found that there is no evidence of an in-service injury or event causing a right knee disability and thus could not establish service connection under direct service connection criteria. The Veteran's private physician stated the hearing loss may be related to noise exposure during service, but this was not sufficient to establish service connection as VA does not presume such conditions for ACDUTRA.
- Claimed conditions
- Right Knee Disability, Bilateral Hearing Loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- July 21, 2017
- Citation
- 1728782
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