Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claims for service connection for vertigo and migraines as secondary to tinnitus due to inadequate VA medical opinions.
The deciding factor: The VA opinions of record are found to be inadequate, failing to address aggravation prior to the rating decision on appeal and being contradictory in nature.
- Claimed conditions
- benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (vertigo), migraine headaches including migraine variants
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- December 30, 2025
- Citation
- A25110777
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