Dismissed
The Board's decision to deny an initial compensable disability rating for bilateral hearing loss was vacated due to a procedural error.
The deciding factor: Due process error as one of the Veterans Law Judges who conducted a hearing did not participate in the final determination of the claim.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 30, 2025
- Citation
- 25013479
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