Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral hearing loss disability and tinnitus as there was no evidence of these conditions during service or within one year of separation, and the VA examiner opined that they were not related to in-service noise exposure.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinion was considered significantly probative due to the lack of evidence of a threshold shift during service and the passage of time between discharge from active service and the medical documentation of the claimed disabilities.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss disability, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- March 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25021803
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