The Board granted service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, lumbar spine disability, right knee disability, and left knee disability based on the evidence being at least evenly balanced as to whether these conditions had onset in service.
The deciding factor: The evidence was considered to be at least evenly balanced, and reasonable doubt was resolved in favor of the Veteran, leading to a grant of service connection for all four conditions.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, Lumbar spine degenerative disc disease with degenerative arthritis, Right knee degenerative arthritis, Residuals of left knee total arthroplasty
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- March 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25023098
What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
What you can do next
Related decisions
Other Board decisions on a similar condition or argued the same way.
- Denied
The Board denied an earlier effective date for the grant of service connection for bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, finding that the Veteran's most recent claim was filed on May 23, 2017.
- Denied
The Board denied service connection for a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability as the evidence did not support that it began during active service or manifested to a compensable degree within the first post-service year, or was otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
- Granted
The Board granted a disability rating of 20 percent but no higher for the Veteran's bilateral sensorineural hearing loss.
- Partly granted
The Board granted service connection for residuals of right hip joint replacement, left hip degenerative arthritis and residuals of joint replacement, and right and left knee degenerative arthritis. The claim for vertigo was denied.
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