The Board granted an initial 30 percent rating for service-connected asthma and denied a compensable rating for chronic sinusitis. Service connection was granted for allergic rhinitis but denied for bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, and sebaceous gland cancer of the right eye.
The deciding factor: The decision was based on the evidence supporting daily inhalational or oral bronchodilator therapy or inhalational anti-inflammatory medication for asthma, and a lack of evidence for incapacitating episodes or non-incapacitating episodes meeting the criteria for sinusitis to warrant a compensable rating. Service connection was granted for allergic rhinitis due to in-service asbestos exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- asthma, chronic sinusitis with frontal sinus polyps (service-connected sinusitis), allergic rhinitis, bilateral hearing loss, tinnitus, sebaceous gland cancer, right eye
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 24, 2025
- Citation
- A25054115
What this means for you
A partial grant means some issues were granted while others were denied or remanded — common in multi-issue claims. Look at which issues went which way, and how each was argued.
What you can do next
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