The Board has determined that the Veteran's left ear hearing loss is associated with his service-connected traumatic brain injury, and thus grants service connection for this condition.
The deciding factor: The evidence is in equipoise on whether the Veteran's left ear hearing loss was caused or aggravated by his service-connected TBI.
- Claimed conditions
- sensorineural hearing loss, left ear
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 17, 2022
- Citation
- 22064356
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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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