Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection and increased ratings due to a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error in scheduling examinations.
The deciding factor: A pre-decisional duty-to-assist error requiring a remand was found due to failure to properly notify, schedule, and afford examinations to the Veteran.
- Claimed conditions
- bilateral hearing loss, right knee disability, to include as secondary to a service-connected left knee disability, back disability (herniated nucleus pulposus, lumbar spine, with left leg radiculopathy), hypertension, left knee disability
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 3, 2025
- Citation
- A25103957
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