Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's in-service noise exposure was sufficient to cause the condition.
The deciding factor: The Board found that the Veteran is competent to report the onset of his hearing loss symptoms and that the negative nexus opinions are not entitled to probative weight as they failed to account for the Veteran's reports of the onset of hearing loss symptoms.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 19, 2025
- Citation
- 25003782
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