The Veteran's appeals for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus have been dismissed. The Board has remanded the remaining claims, including those related to Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and its associated disabilities.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran requested to withdraw his appeal for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus prior to a decision being made.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Tinnitus, Parkinson’s Disease (PD), A psychiatric disability, to include as due to PD, A speech disorder, to include as due to PD, A bradykinesia, to include as due to PD, A short-term memory loss, to include as due to PD, A left upper extremity tremors, to include as due to PD, A throat paralysis, to include as due to PD, A left eye disability, to include as due to PD, A balance disorder, to include as due to PD
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 19, 2019
- Citation
- 19195299
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What this means for you
A dismissal means the Board did not decide the issue on its merits — usually because it was withdrawn or had become moot. It says more about procedure than about whether a claim like this can win.
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 bilateral hearing loss, as there was no evidence of a current disability in the right ear and insufficient evidence to establish a nexus between the left ear hearing loss and service.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus, finding that the Veteran's conditions are related to in-service noise exposure.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter for a medical clarification regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected epilepsy has aggravated his bilateral hearing loss.
- Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss to obtain an addendum opinion addressing the Veteran's lay statements regarding in-service acoustic trauma and a rocket blast injury.
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