Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an etiological opinion regarding whether the Veteran's service-connected sensorineural hearing loss was a contributory cause of death.
The deciding factor: The AOJ committed a pre-decisional duty-to-assist error in failing to provide a medical examination when necessary to decide the claim, as there was insufficient competent medical evidence to decide it at the time of the decision on appeal.
- Claimed conditions
- sensorineural hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 15, 2025
- Citation
- A25107831
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