Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for bilateral hearing loss and tinnitus due to a need for an additional medical opinion.
The deciding factor: The VA examiner's opinions did not address whether any delayed-onset hearing loss and tinnitus could be related to noise exposure in service even if the disorders did not manifest therein, and did not convert audiometric results using ASA standards to ISO-ANSI standards.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss, Tinnitus
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 12, 2025
- Citation
- A25098170
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