BVA Decisions on Tinnitus
57 real Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving tinnitus. Each links to the full decision, reasoning, and citations.
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Case 96-1214 — 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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Case 23-2243 — Unknown April 26,2024The Court will vacate the part of the Board's decision that failed to address the appellant's argument in his December 2021 NOD that he was entitled to compensation for unrated man...
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Case 20-2118 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded June 24,2021VA also obtained a thyroid examination;the VA examiner noted that the appellant was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2009 and opined that the condition was not related to the nonst...
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Case 22-4960 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 13,2023The next month, another audiologist provided a negative nexus opinion....
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Case 14-1330 — Vacated / Remanded June 30,2015Regarding VA's duty to assist,the Board found the March 2012 audiological examination adequate to enable the Board to make an informed decision on the claims,noting that the examin...
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Case 11-0325 — Affirmed February 14,2012Levario appears to argue that the Board's determinations that he was not entitled to VA benefits for a left knee disability,sling palsy,and trauma to the left side of the waist wer...
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Case 19-2504 — Unknown April 13,2021Harrison , through counsel,appeals a December 18,2018,Board of Veteran's Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied service connection for a neck condition and bilateral hea...
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Case 22-1946 — Vacated / Remanded September 16,2024VA advised him that the claim was previously denied in February 1981 and that he needed to submit new and material evidence to reopen it....
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Case 14-0138 — Vacated / Remanded March 16,2015In the December 27,2013,decision on appeal,the Board denied disability compensation for migraine headaches,a central nervous system disability manifested by dizziness,bilateral hea...
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Case 13-0540 — Vacated / Remanded February 9,2015On appeal,the appellant contends that the Board failed to provide an adequate statement of reasons or bases for rejecting his testimony concerning the continuity of his symptoms af...
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Case 22-3160 — Affirmed October 23,2023In an April 2019 decision, the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than August 17,2011,for the grant of TDIU for accrued-benefits purposes....
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Case 10-1922 — Remanded / Vacated / Affirmed December 5,2011Because the Secretary concedes,and the Court agrees, that the Board provided inadequate reasons or bases for its determination that new and material evidence had not been received,...
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Case 22-7547 — Affirmed January 31,2024There must be a nexus of auditory damage to relate current hearing loss to military noise and not another etiology....
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Case 23-4685 — Unknown April 10,2024Alford's hearing loss was less likely than not related to his military service....
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Case 21-7788 — Vacated / Remanded April 18,2023The RO also denied the petition to reopen the claim for service connection for chronic fatigue syndrome and explained that the evidence submitted in connection with the current cla...
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Case 24-2877 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded May 23,2025The appellant underwent a VA examination for artery and vein conditions in May 2023; the examiner opined that there was no pathology to warrant an upper extremity PVD diagnosis;he ...
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Case 13-1245 — Vacated / Reversed / Remanded vember 18,2015Specifically,the Board found that the October 1973 RO decision became final when the RO denied the substance of the hearing loss claim in September 2003 and the veteran failed to a...
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Case 20-7178 — Affirmed March 31,2022In the June 2020 decision on appeal,the Board denied an initial disability rating greater than 50%for PTSD and an effective date earlier than November 16,2012,for the award of SMC(...
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Case 09-3727 — Affirmed March 10,2011Lay Testimony The appellant argues that the Board failed to consider credible lay evidence with regard to his service-connection claims for left knee disability,depression,back pai...
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Case 21-5427 — Unknown November 9,2022The veteran appealed to the Board,and in a March 2006 decision,the Board denied service connection for bilateral hearing loss....
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Case 14-0783 — Affirmed April 23,2015The examiner's rationale concludes: Thus there is no nexus or medical evidence of chronic left knee pain that was continuous after the veteran left the service....
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Case 23-0107 — Unknown November 30,2023And the Board recognized that the veteran was competent to report his symptoms and to report,years after separation, when he was diagnosed with arthritis,but the Board found that t...
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Case 21-3036 — Vacated / Remanded December 15,2022On February 2,2021,the Board denied a rating in excess of 20%for the back disability, including a separate rating for left and right lower extremity radiculopathy prior to August 1...
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Case 22-0257 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated April 24,2023On November 26,2021,the Board found that new and relevant evidence had not been submitted to warrant readjudication of the claims for disability compensation for tinnitus and erect...
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Case 23-5933 — Vacated / Remanded May 30,2025In July 2019, the Board denied service connection for a right hip condition and degenerative arthritis of the right knee....
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Case 24-0638 — Vacated / Remanded March 24,2025The appellant argues that the Board erred by (1)failing to address favorable evidence and to lay a proper foundation for denying service connection for tinnitus;(2)failing to discu...
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Case 03-2135 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated November 9, 2005innitus (a noise in the ears such as ringing, buzzing, roaring, or clicking), and (3) found that no new and material evidence had been presented to reopen his service- connection b...
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Case 09-3224 — Affirmed February 25,2011Ackerman was not entitled to benefits for bilateral hearing loss was not clearly erroneous;because the September 2003 VA medical examination,including the November 2003 addendum,wa...
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Case 21-0372 — Vacated / Remanded April 4,2022Also,in denying a higher rating for coronary artery disease,the Board noted that the appellant's reporting of his symptoms is credible....
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Case 22-7103 — Unknown January 31,2024The VA treatment provider who evaluated him submitted nexus letters dated in March 2016....
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Case 24-0052 — Vacated / Remanded July 9,2025The appellant argues that the Board erred by relying on June 2022 and January 2023 medical opinions,which were inadequate because the examiners did not address his lay statements r...
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Case 09-1567 — Reversed / Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed May 21,2013The Court concludes that the Board erred in referring, rather than remanding or adjudicating the dental claim....
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Case 13-1865 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 26,2014In the second decision on appeal (Decision 2),the Board denied Mr....
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Case 13-3414 — Affirmed September 19,2014SCHOELEN, Judge :The pro se appellant, Arturo Ramirez , appeals a September 19,2013, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability c...
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Case 13-2506 — Remanded / Affirmed August 11,2014Glover,through counsel,appeals a July 3, 2013,Board of Veterans' Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied his claims for disability compensation for tinnitus,hearing loss,...
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Case 08-2682 — Remanded / Affirmed / Vacated October 19,2010In the decision here on appeal,the Board denied entitlement to service connection for PTSD, bilateral flat feet,a left ankle condition,right ear hearing loss,and tinnitus because i...
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Case 07-1599 — Affirmed April 10,2009The appellant does not present any argument concerning the Board's determination that no new and material evidence had been received sufficient to reopen his claims for service con...
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Case 21-5726 — Unknown March 1,20231 Appellant asks the Court to reverse the Board�s finding that VA satisfied its duty to assist....
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Case 07-3060 — Unknown March 25,2010The principal issue before the Court is whether VA fulfilled its duty to assist by obtaining two VA medical examinations in which the examiners concluded that they were unable to r...
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Case 06-1930 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed December 10, 2007Because the Board failed to provide adequate reasons or bases for its denial of a disability rating in excess of 40% for degenerative joint disease of the lumbar spine and sacroili...
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Case 19-2158 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed June 29,2020To the extent that the Board denied entitlement to an effective date earlier than February 4,2007,for the 50%rating for PTSD,the appellant raises no arguments challenging that deci...
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Case 04-0185 — Vacated June 5, 2006McLendon argues that the Board erred in its evaluation of the evidence and that the Secretary failed to provide him with a VA medical examination pursuant to 38 U....
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Case 07-3547 — Affirmed / Remanded / Vacated May 22,2009Palmer appeals through counsel an October 30,2007,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board determined that a June 6,2000,Board decision had subsumed a July 9, 1...
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Case 24-4708 — Affirmed December 5,2025Mackey's conceded in-service noise exposure;thus,any future hearing loss was less likely as not related to such noise exposure because there was not currently any evidence of noise...
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Case 19-0200 — Vacated / Affirmed March 31,2020,appeals through counsel a September 12,2018,Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision finding no new and material evidence sufficient to reopen previously denied claims for servic...
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Case 10-2421 — Affirmed February 8,2012Gill had not submitted new and material evidence with regard to his claim for benefits for tinnitus and therefore declining to reopen that claim....
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Case 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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Case 19-4261 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed July 31,2020Garr's claimed left knee condition was proximately due to or 3 Although a claim for service connection for a left knee condition was also pending,the September 2016 examination did...
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Case 20-7109 — Unknown June 28,2022In its June 2020 decision,the Board determined that the appellant's cervical spine condition is not causally or etiologically due to service,nor is it proximately due to or aggrava...
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Case 24-0585 — Unknown January 22,2025November 2023 Board Decision In the November 2023 decision on appeal,the Board denied service connection for a lumbar spine disability,finding that it did not manifest in service o...
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Case 09-4211 — Remanded / Affirmed May 27,2011The challenged Board decision further determined that new and material evidence had not been received to reopen a claim of entitlement to service connection for a torn lateral meni...
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Case 23-0642 — Vacated / Remanded April 30,2024The Court remands these matters because the Board providedan inadequate statement of reasons or bases for denying service connection for the veteran's lumbar and cervical spine dis...
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Case 96-536 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 12, 1999On June 9, 1989, the Board denied service connection for Meniere's disease....
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Case 17-0743 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 10,2018SCHOELEN, Judge :The appellant, Erich William Raulfestone , through counsel,appeals a January 17,2017, Board of Veterans'Appeals (Board)decision in which the Board denied entitleme...
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Case 11-2361 — Vacated / Remanded August 21,2012The Board denied the appellant's claim in an August 11,2009,decision....
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Case 24-4772 — Affirmed May 23,2025at 7,and that [t]he evidence of record is littered with favorable evidence that the Board should fully and sympathetically develop,giving all benefit of the doubt to the [appellant...
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Case 23-1665 — Unknown November 6,2024In February 2019,the Board denied the appellant's motion alleging CUE in the October 1997 administrative decision finding that the MVA was not incurred in the line of duty....