Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor due to exposure to acoustic trauma during service.
The deciding factor: The evidence was at least in approximate balance as to whether the Veteran's symptoms of currently diagnosed bilateral hearing loss had their onset during active-duty service, and the private medical opinion provided a shared etiology for both hearing loss and tinnitus.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25019129
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