The Board denied service connection for a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss disability as the evidence did not support that it began during active service or manifested to a compensable degree within the first post-service year, or was otherwise related to an in-service injury or disease.
The deciding factor: The January 2025 VA examiner opined that the Veteran's bilateral hearing loss was less likely than not incurred in or caused by in-service exposure to hazardous noise due to a lack of evidence supporting delayed onset hearing loss and the anatomical and physiological data available on recovery from noise exposure.
- Claimed conditions
- Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 10, 2025
- Citation
- A25106395
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