The Board granted service connection for sleep apnea and remanded the claim for bilateral hearing loss due to a duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The February 2023 private opinion was given significant probative value, finding that the Veteran's sleep apnea is related to his active-duty service and/or his service-connected diabetes. The Board found that the evidence of record is persuasively in favor of the claim and applied the benefit of the doubt doctrine.
- Claimed conditions
- sleep apnea, bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 29, 2025
- Citation
- A25093926
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