Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for a disability rating in excess of 20 percent for lumbosacral strain and service connection for right ear hearing loss due to pre-decisional duty to assist errors.
The deciding factor: Remand is required to correct pre-decisional duty to assist errors, including inadequate examination reports and opinions regarding the severity of the Veteran's disability and etiology of his right ear hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- lumbosacral strain, right ear hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 19, 2025
- Citation
- A25100767
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