The Board has denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss and granted service connection for tinnitus. The remaining claims of entitlement to service connection for right foot injury, right finger deformity, right wrist injury, depression with alcohol abuse, and a back condition are remanded.,An addendum opinion is needed regarding the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected left knee degenerative joint disease.
The deciding factor: The Board has determined that there is not sufficient evidence to establish service connection for the claimed conditions. The claims are therefore considered mixed, with some issues granted and others denied.,An addendum opinion is needed to determine the current severity of the Veteran's service-connected left knee degenerative joint disease.
- Claimed conditions
- Back condition, Bilateral hearing loss, Depression with alcohol abuse, Right finger deformity, Right foot injury, Right wrist injury, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- May 13, 2019
- Citation
- 19136948
Veterans Law Judge
Decisions by this judge: 1,861 · Granted: 27% (granted or partly granted, in the vetted decisions on this site)
Judge attribution: 2025 complete; earlier years partial.
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What this means for you
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