The Board has granted service connection for a peripheral vestibular disorder (vertigo) and remanded the issue of entitlement to a compensable rating for service-connected bilateral hearing loss.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's current diagnosis of vertigo is at least as likely as not caused by in-service acoustic trauma, which resulted from an explosion during service.
- Claimed conditions
- Peripheral Vestibular Disorder (Vertigo)
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 9, 2023
- Citation
- 23008443
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