Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the matter of entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss for further development, including obtaining a VA opinion and additional treatment records.
The deciding factor: Remand is necessary due to insufficient evidence regarding the etiology of the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss in relation to his service-connected diabetes mellitus and arteriosclerotic heart disease, as well as incomplete search for retired or archived paper records from 1995 to 2000.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2025
- Citation
- 25014521
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