The Board has remanded the case due to insufficient opinions regarding whether the Veteran's peripheral vestibular disorder is secondary to service-connected bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus.
The deciding factor: The August 2017 examiner did not provide a comprehensive opinion on the causation or aggravation of the peripheral vestibular disorder by bilateral hearing loss and/or tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- peripheral vestibular disorder (claimed as vertigo)
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 7, 2020
- Citation
- 20000923
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.
- Partly granted
The Board granted readjudication of previously denied claims for service connection for right and left shoulder, right and left hip, bilateral hearing loss, gastrointestinal, bilateral kidney, and urinary disorders based on new and relevant evidence. Service connection was also granted for sinusitis with an earlier effective date. The claim for a peripheral vestibular disorder (claimed as vertigo) was denied.
- Denied
The Board denied an initial disability rating in excess of 10 percent for the Veteran's service-connected peripheral vestibular disorder as it was not shown to be more nearly approximated by dizziness and occasional staggering.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for right lower extremity sciatica associated with the Veteran's service-connected lumbosacral spine strain, but remanded claims for service connection for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and sleep apnea.
- Granted
The Board granted service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death, finding that his lung cancer was related to his service-connected melanoma.
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