Dismissed
The Board dismissed the appeals for service connection for tinnitus and bilateral hearing loss due to untimely notice of disagreement, while remanding issues related to hypertension and sleep apnea for further development.
The deciding factor: The Veteran's NODs were filed outside the one-year period required by law, thus they are not timely. For the other issues, there was a failure to obtain private treatment records which is a pre-decisional duty to assist error that must be corrected on remand.
- Claimed conditions
- tinnitus, bilateral hearing loss, hypertension, sleep apnea
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 5, 2025
- Citation
- A25105063
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