Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the issue of entitlement to service connection for bilateral hearing loss for further development, specifically to obtain an addendum opinion regarding the relationship between the Veteran's current hearing loss and in-service noise exposure.
The deciding factor: An adequate VA opinion is not of record, and the AOJ's failure to obtain one constitutes a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error that must be corrected on remand.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 21, 2025
- Citation
- A25015773
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