The Board remanded the claim for service connection for vertigo, to include as secondary to service-connected tinnitus, due to inadequate medical examination.
The deciding factor: The June 2023 VA examination and medical opinion addressing this claim is inadequate because it does not clarify whether the Veteran has a current diagnosis for a disorder manifested by dizziness and/or loss of balance that causes a functional impairment of earning capacity that is secondary to her tinnitus disability.
- Claimed conditions
- vertigo, dizziness, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- How they argued it
- Secondary to another service-connected condition
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- January 28, 2025
- Citation
- A25007713
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