Granted
The Board granted service connection for bilateral hearing loss, resolving reasonable doubt in the Veteran's favor and finding that his current hearing loss was caused by or a result of military noise exposure.
The deciding factor: The positive nexus opinion from the private audiologist was based on evidence of in-service noise exposure as well as current asymmetric hearing loss, which supported the conclusion that the Veteran's hearing loss is related to service.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- 100%
- Decision date
- October 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25094576
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