The Board has granted the Veteran's claims for service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability, nerve disability of the bilateral upper extremities, and erectile dysfunction. The disabilities are all related to pre-existing conditions.
The deciding factor: Service connection is granted as the disabilities are secondary to the Veteran’s service-connected diabetes.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss disability, nerve disability of the bilateral upper extremities, erectile dysfunction (ED)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 19, 2018
- Citation
- 18143476
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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