Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for a new opinion on the nature and etiology of the Veteran's current bilateral hearing loss disability.
The deciding factor: The AOJ committed pre-decisional duty to assist errors by neglecting to make reasonable efforts to find missing records from private audiology notes, which may provide information about the origin of the Veteran's current hearing loss disability. The Board must remand for a new opinion on this matter.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss disability
- How they argued it
- Presumptive (no nexus needed)
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 4, 2025
- Citation
- A25019570
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