The Board remands the Veteran's claim for service connection to afford the Veteran an updated VA examination to evaluate and obtain an etiological opinion for the bilateral hearing loss.
The deciding factor: The June 2024 VA examiner concluded that a history of noise exposure alone is not a nexus for entitlement to service connection for hearing loss, and as the service treatment records do not indicate significant permanent shift in hearing thresholds between entrance to separation from service, the evidence is against a nexus in this case.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2025
- Citation
- 25001768
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