BVA Decisions on Hearing Loss
85 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving hearing loss — Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions and U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC) decisions, each labeled with its court. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.
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CAVCCase 96-1214 — Denied / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded February 11, 1999In the May 28, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied service connection for wounds of the lower extremities, frostbite of the feet, a skin disorder of the feet, heari...
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CAVCCase 94-0927 — Affirmed / Reversed January 27, 1997As was the case in Ramey, the BVA decision here was issued prior to the Combee opinion, and the BVA failed to address the question of direct service connection....
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CAVCCase 90-0818 — Unknown April 12, 1995In a July 1988 decision, the RO determined that the veteran had not submitted new and material evidence to reopen his claim because no medical records had shown a right-leg injury ...
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CAVCCase 95-232 — Reversed October 1, 1996An August 1986 RO decision stated that "no new and material evidence [had been] submitted which would warrant reversal of prior denial....
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BVACase 240530-443263 — Denied / Remanded April 15, 2025Establishing service connection generally requires (1) evidence of a current disability; (2) evidence of in-service incurrence or aggravation of a disease or injury; and (3) eviden...
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CAVCCase 92-970 — Unknown April 17, 1996On May 21, 1992, the Board denied a schedular evaluation greater than 10% for the service- connected left mandible condition but granted an additional 10% evaluation for that condi...
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CAVCCase 92-622 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded March 6, 1995The appellant has filed a brief requesting that the Court vacate the Board's decision denying his claims for back condition and arthritis, reverse the Board's finding that the evid...
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BVACase 23029996 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded May 23, 2023The additional documentation submitted since the September 2009 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran's claim of ser...
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CAVCCase 96-536 — Denied / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 12, 1999On June 9, 1989, the Board denied service connection for Meniere's disease....
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CAVCCase 95-310 — Remanded / Denied / Vacated November 10, 1998sychiatric disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); the Board also concluded that new and material evidence had not been presented or secured to reopen his previo...
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BVACase 20005180 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 24, 202414-09 226A DATE: September 24, 2024 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of service connection for a low back disorder is reopened and to this extent onl...
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CAVCCase 94-169 — Vacated / Remanded August 9, 1995The Board concluded that there was no evidence that the appellant experienced hearing loss during service....
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CAVCCase 91-1688 — Unknown September 16, 1993In its July 1991 decision, the Board denied service connection for (1) defective hearing of the left ear, (2) residuals of an injury to the right index finger, (3) pseudofolliculit...
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BVACase 23007415 — Granted / Denied / Remanded February 6, 202318-30 679 DATE: February 6, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim for service connection for bilateral hearing loss is reopened, and to that extent o...
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CAVCCase 90-720 — Vacated / Affirmed February 18, 19943 On July 20, 1988, the rating board denied service connection for a seizure disorder, headaches, peripheral vascular disease, and venous insufficiency....
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BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023New and material evidence has not been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for chronic migraine headaches, and the claim to reopen is denied....
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BVACase 08-1951 — Reversed / RemandedAl- though it acknowledged that he was exposed to mortar fire and had been treated for malaria while in service, the board noted that “the earliest clinical recording of hearing im...
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CAVCCase 97-2180 — Denied / Affirmed February 17, 1999FARLEY, Judge: This is an appeal from an October 1, 1997, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which, inter alia, (1) found that new and material evidence had ...
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CAVCCase 90-1306 — Affirmed / Granted / Denied April 28, 1993chronic psychiatric disorder, panic disorder, was first manifested many years after service and is not related to service....
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CAVCCase 97-1321 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 2, 1999In addressing the tinnitus claim, the Board noted in its findings of fact that "[a] medical examiner has not documented persistent tinnitus....
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CAVCCase 91-266 — Denied / Remanded December 21, 1992Cuevas appeals from a November 9, 1990, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which denied his previously disallowed claim for service connection for hearing lo...
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CAVCCase 93-992 — Denied February 7, 1995Heuer, appeals, through counsel, a June 16, 1993, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision finding that the veteran had not submitted new and material evidence and thus d...
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CAVCCase 90-239 — Affirmed / Denied / Reversed May 23, 1991The Court finds that the BVA erred in treating the evidence submitted by appellant as new and material when the Board itself concluded that the evidence was cumulative....
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CAVCCase 90-960 — Granted / Affirmed / Denied / Vacated / Remanded September 29, 1992Post-traumatic Stress Disorder When a veteran presents a well-grounded claim for service connection, the Secretary has a duty to assist the veteran in developing the facts pertinen...
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CAVCCase 01-1865 — Affirmed August 27, 2004KRAMER, Chief Judge: The appellant, through counsel, appeals an October 3, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision in which the Board denied an effective date prio...
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BVACase 06-1327 — AffirmedFagan argues that the Veterans Court incorrectly interpreted the benefit of the doubt doctrine codified at 38 U....
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CAVCCase 04-0233 — Affirmed / Remanded July 13, 2006The Board found that "the veteran has failed to submit, and the Board is unable to obtain (short of finding a physician who witnessed both accidents) persuasive and competent evide...
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CAVCCase 01-575 — Reversed / Vacated July 11, 2003In November 1995, the Board reopened the veteran's claim based on new and material evidence, including a February 1977 VA medical record noting that the veteran had told a physicia...
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BVACase 23016984 — Granted / Remanded March 19, 202317-33 381 DATE: March 19, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence was received, and the petition to reopen the claim of service connection for a left ear hearing loss disability is gr...
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CAVCCase 03-1251 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded December 15, 2004Duenas, who is unrepresented, appeals a May 13, 2003, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board) decision in which the Board denied his claims for service connection for (1) a urinary trac...
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CAVCCase 01-1536 — Vacated / Remanded / Denied October 3, 2002KRAMER, Chief Judge: The appellant appeals, through counsel, an August 7, 2001, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) that determined that new and material evid...
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CAVCCase 97-459 — Affirmed / Dismissed November 18, 1998at 101) and, in response, was notified by the RO that he must submit new and material evidence in order to reopen his claim (R....
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BVACase 210331-149581 — Granted / Remanded / Vacated March 14, 2023Service connection may be granted directly as a result of disease or injury incurred in service based on nexus using a three-element test: (1) the existence of a present disability...
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BVACase 20-6853 — Denied July 6, 2023Most recently, the Board denied the above-listed claim in a May 2022 Board Decision....
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CAVCCase 94-0206 — Reversed / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded October 10, 1995A November 1992 BVA decision determined that new and material evidence had been submitted to reopen the hearing-loss claim, citing the new medical evidence and a change in 38 C....
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CAVCCase 00-1888 — Vacated February 12, 2003In the February 2000 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied a rating greater than 20% for the appellant's bilateral hearing loss with tinnitus and assigned a separate 10% ra...
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BVACase 210114-136617 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 17, 2024If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the date the Board received the VA Form 10182, or (2) more than 90 d...
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BVACase 210413-152704 — Denied / Granted February 9, 2024Affording the Veteran the benefit of the doubt, the evidence demonstrates the Veteran has a right foot condition that was caused or aggravated by service-connect left foot and left...
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DecisionCase 25009942 — Granted / Denied July 31, 2025At which time, the Board found additional information and evidence had been submitted by the Veteran, which raised additional theories of entitlement to service connection that wer...
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CAVCCase 90-396 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Denied October 6, 1992If the recipient of a final adverse decision submits new and material evidence to the RO, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Secretary) must reopen the claim and review the former ...
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CAVCCase 02-1108 — Granted / Vacated September 14, 2004In the March 2002 BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied to the appellant basic eligibility for VA benefits....
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BVACase 220615-252249 — Granted / Denied / Remanded August 25, 2025e present disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service-the so-called "nexus" requirement....
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BVACase 23031314 — Dismissed / Granted / Denied / Remanded May 30, 2023The additional documentation submitted since the August 2009 and October 2012 rating decision is new and material and raises a reasonable possibility of substantiating the Veteran'...
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BVACase 220714-259014 — Denied / Remanded October 30, 2024If evidence was submitted during the period after the AOJ issued the decisions, which were subsequently subject to higher-level review the Board did not consider it in its decision...
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CAVCCase 97-280 — Unknown September 29, 1999In the October 24, 1996, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied the veteran's knee-disability claim as not well grounded because of a lack of evidence to link the claimed co...
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CAVCCase 90-654 — Remanded August 19, 1991While stating that it did "not doubt the sincerity of the lay statements", the rating board found that "the evidence fails to establish that the veteran had any complaints of a hea...
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BVACase 220615-251909 — Denied / Granted / Remanded January 7, 2025Service Connection Generally, in order to prove service connection, there must be competent, credible evidence of (1) a current disability, (2) in-service incurrence or aggravation...
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CAVCCase 98-1410 — Dismissed / Affirmed July 21, 2000The Board found that further development was required with respect to the veteran's claims for headaches, insomnia, mild obstructive airway disease, metallic taste in his mouth, an...
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BVACase 85-279 — ReversedInitially, the RO treated Boggs’ 2002 claim as an attempt to reopen his 1955 claim and notified him that new and material evidence would be required to reopen his claim....
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BVACase 23015309 — Denied March 14, 2023resent disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service' - the so-called 'nexus' requirement....
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BVACase 22059105 — Granted / Denied October 20, 2022New and material evidence has not been submitted to reopen the claim of service connection for Bell's Palsy on the left side of face, and the appeal is denied....
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BVACase 25005096 — Denied April 15, 2025In the March 2023 decision, the Board found that a clear and unmistakable error had occurred in the assignment of an initial rating of 70 percent disabling for service-connected bi...
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DecisionCase 23031607 — Denied / Granted / Remanded May 31, 2023A medical link or nexus between the Veteran's back condition and an in-service incurrence has not been established; the Veteran's current back condition is not shown to have manife...
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BVACase 191209-55231 — Granted / Remanded February 14, 2024If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the Board hearing, or (2) more than 90 days following the hearing, t...
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CAVCCase 02-742 — Affirmed June 17, 2005She further maintains that the Board erred by ruling that her original service-connection claim in 1975 did not include a claim for non- Hodgkin's lymphoma....
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CAVCCase 03-2196 — Granted / Denied / Vacated / Remanded July 12, 2006In the decision on appeal, the Board denied an effective date earlier than April 15, 1992....
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CAVCCase 97-1184 — Granted / Affirmed July 23, 1998In the March 19, 1997, decision here on appeal the Board found that there was no medical evidence showing a nexus between the veteran's current conditions and service....
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CAVCCase 02-1284 — Vacated / Remanded June 8, 2005Kowalski maintains that the Board erred by denying his hearing- loss claim on the basis that he had abandoned it by refusing to report for a VA medical examination and by also conc...
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CAVCCase 01-970 — Vacated / Remanded / Granted September 13, 2004O R D E R The appellant appeals pro se an April 16, 2001, Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board or BVA) decision in which the Board denied him payment of full disability compensation d...
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BVACase 200408-81247 — Denied / Granted April 10, 2024If evidence was submitted either (1) during the period after the AOJ issued the decision on appeal and prior to the Board hearing, or (2) more than 90 days following the hearing, t...
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BVACase 23029153 — Denied / Granted May 18, 2023The applicability of the reasonable doubt doctrine has been considered; however, since the preponderance of the evidence is against the claim, the benefit-of-the-doubt rule does no...
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BVACase 25009736 — Denied / Granted July 28, 2025The JMPR reads in part, "The Board failed to ensure that VA satisfied its duty to assist, because the record does not contain the VA audiograms identified in the August 2019 and Fe...
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BVACase 23002776 — Denied / Remanded / Granted January 17, 202318-26 279 DATE: January 17, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of entitlement to service connection for hearing loss is reopened....
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CAVCCase 91-1565 — Unknown June 11, 1993On January 15, 1980, a medical board noted appellant's "chronic persistent mild to moderate right hemiscrotal discomfort" and recommended that appellant would be more effective if ...
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CAVCCase 00-499 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 14, 2004The appellant also contends that a remand is required because VA failed to adjudicate the appellant's claim for non-service-connected pension....
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CAVCCase 91-1179 — Vacated May 18, 1993In the March 13, 1991, BVA decision here on appeal, the Board denied service connection for hearing loss....
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BVACase 220810-267751 — Denied / Remanded November 1, 2024This evidence may prove or disprove the nexus elements of the claims for service connection for the left knee and back conditions....
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DecisionCase 22020916 — Granted / Remanded April 7, 202218-37 783 DATE: April 7, 2022 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim for service connection for tinnitus is reopened....
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BVACase 230831-373372 — Denied / Granted September 28, 2023, there is a nexus, or link, between something that happened in service and the Veteran's disability....
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CAVCCase 02-793 — Reversed September 14, 2004As to the applicable definition of blindness, the Board concluded as follows: The argument has also been made that the applicable regulatory provisions of 38 U....
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BVACase 210614-166291 — Denied August 21, 2024The Board must analyze the competency and credibility of the evidence, account for the evidence which it finds to be persuasive or unpersuasive and provide the reasons for its reje...
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CAVCCase 90-794 — Granted / Affirmed April 28, 1992In response, the VARO issued a deferred rating decision explaining that service connection for his hearing problem was previously considered and denied since 1964; therefore, the o...
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CAVCCase 91-1052 — Vacated January 6, 1993If the claim on appeal is a reopened claim and was properly reopened on the basis of new and material evidence under 38 U....
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DecisionCase 23004196 — Denied January 24, 2023In September 2022, the Veteran's claim was remanded by the Board for additional development to include obtaining a new VA examination with a medical nexus opinion....
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CAVCCase 96-1517 — Affirmed July 14, 19993 In the decision on appeal, the BVA found no evidence of nexus with respect to the claims for hearing loss and back disability....
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CAVCCase 90-1169 — Vacated / Remanded April 15, 1992, the arguably doubtful credibility of the report of his separation physical examination (hereinafter referred to as "separation physical")....
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CAVCCase 92-738 — Affirmed October 5, 1993Before FARLEY, MANKIN, and HOLDAWAY, Judges MANKIN, Judge: Appellant appeals a February 14, 1992, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) which determined that th...
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BVACase 24028711 — Granted / Denied August 9, 2024When there is an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence regarding any issue material to the determination of the matter, the benefit of the doubt will be given to th...
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BVACase 24030288 — Denied September 13, 2024The Board must analyze the competency and credibility of the evidence, account for the evidence which it finds to be persuasive or unpersuasive and provide the reasons for its reje...
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DecisionCase 23010056 — Denied / Vacated February 16, 2023In December of 2019, the Board denied, in relevant part, entitlement to service connection for Meniere's disease....