Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for service connection of bilateral hearing loss to obtain an adequate medical opinion addressing whether the Veteran's current hearing loss is directly related to service.
The deciding factor: The December 2024 VA medical opinion was found inadequate due to reliance on the absence of in-service hearing loss and failure to consider lay statements regarding noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- November 20, 2025
- Citation
- A25100862
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