Remanded (sent back)
The Board remands the claim for an initial compensable disability evaluation for right ear hearing loss due to a pre-decisional duty to assist error.
The deciding factor: The AOJ's failure to complete a statutory and regulatory duty in granting service connection for left ear hearing loss must be corrected, as it affects the evaluation of bilateral versus unilateral hearing loss.
- Claimed conditions
- right ear hearing loss, left ear hearing loss
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- October 16, 2025
- Citation
- A25089137
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