BVA Decisions on Tinnitus

55 real veterans-appeals decisions on VA disability claims involving tinnitus — 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, 1999
  In 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...
• BVACase 240530-443263 — Denied / Remanded April 15, 2025
  Establishing 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...
• CAVCCase 04-0185 — Vacated June 5, 2006
  McLendon 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....
• CAVCCase 92-970 — Unknown April 17, 1996
  On 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...
• BVACase 23029996 — Dismissed / Denied / Granted / Remanded May 23, 2023
  The 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...
• CAVCCase 96-536 — Denied / Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded April 12, 1999
  On June 9, 1989, the Board denied service connection for Meniere's disease....
• BVACase 20005180 — Granted / Denied / Remanded September 24, 2024
  14-09 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...
• CAVCCase 94-169 — Vacated / Remanded August 9, 1995
  The Board concluded that there was no evidence that the appellant experienced hearing loss during service....
• CAVCCase 91-1688 — Unknown September 16, 1993
  In 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...
• CAVCCase 90-720 — Vacated / Affirmed February 18, 1994
  3 On July 20, 1988, the rating board denied service connection for a seizure disorder, headaches, peripheral vascular disease, and venous insufficiency....
• BVACase 23012576 — Denied / Granted / Remanded March 1, 2023
  New 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....
• CAVCCase 97-1321 — Vacated / Remanded / Affirmed April 2, 1999
  In addressing the tinnitus claim, the Board noted in its findings of fact that "[a] medical examiner has not documented persistent tinnitus....
• CAVCCase 93-992 — Denied February 7, 1995
  Heuer, 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...
• CAVCCase 04-0233 — Affirmed / Remanded July 13, 2006
  The 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...
• BVACase 23016984 — Granted / Remanded March 19, 2023
  17-33 381 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...
• DecisionCase 23030797 — Granted / Remanded May 25, 2023
  19-12304A DATE: May 25, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence has been received to reopen a previously denied claim of entitlement to service connection for hypothyroidism....
• CAVCCase 01-1536 — Vacated / Remanded / Denied October 3, 2002
  KRAMER, 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...
• BVACase 210331-149581 — Granted / Remanded / Vacated March 14, 2023
  Service 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...
• BVACase 20-6853 — Denied July 6, 2023
  Most recently, the Board denied the above-listed claim in a May 2022 Board Decision....
• CAVCCase 94-0206 — Reversed / Dismissed / Vacated / Remanded October 10, 1995
  A 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....
• CAVCCase 00-1888 — Vacated February 12, 2003
  In 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...
• BVACase 190916-30775 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 1, 2024
  The rating of ten percent for right index finger scarring from July 31, 2006, to July 26, 2016, was not clearly erroneous, has already been restored, and since July 26, 2016, the r...
• BVACase 210114-136617 — Granted / Denied / Remanded May 17, 2024
  If 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...
• BVACase 210413-152704 — Denied / Granted February 9, 2024
  Affording 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...
• DecisionCase 25009942 — Granted / Denied July 31, 2025
  At 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...
• CAVCCase 92-653 — Unknown December 20, 1994
  Bielby (appellant) appeals a March 3, 1992, decision of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) determining that the appellant had not submitted new and material evidence to ...
• BVACase 220615-251909 — Denied / Granted / Remanded January 7, 2025
  Service 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...
• BVACase 23035345 — Denied / Remanded / Granted June 22, 2023
  New and material evidence has been received to reopen the Veteran's claim for right eye glaucoma....
• BVACase 220930-281637 — Denied / Remanded November 18, 2024
  Establishing 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...
• BVACase 23015309 — Denied March 14, 2023
  resent disability and the disease or injury incurred or aggravated during service' - the so-called 'nexus' requirement....
• BVACase 22059105 — Granted / Denied October 20, 2022
  New 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....
• BVACase 191209-55231 — Granted / Remanded February 14, 2024
  If 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...
• BVACase 23000407 — Denied / Granted January 4, 2023
  The preponderance of the evidence is against finding that the Veteran's respiratory disorder was causally related to any disease, injury, or incident during service; or related to ...
• CAVCCase 97-1184 — Granted / Affirmed July 23, 1998
  In 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....
• BVACase 23012743 — Granted / Denied March 2, 2023
  The Veteran's headache disorder did not have its onset in, and is not related to, her service....
• CAVCCase 02-1284 — Vacated / Remanded June 8, 2005
  Kowalski 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...
• BVACase 23047014 — Denied August 24, 2023
  ion nor the September 2020 addendum opinion address the October 1985 VA examination;" and (2) "[I]t failed to address the probative value of the May 2002 private medical opinion....
• CAVCCase 01-970 — Vacated / Remanded / Granted September 13, 2004
  O 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...
• BVACase 200408-81247 — Denied / Granted April 10, 2024
  If 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...
• BVACase 25009736 — Denied / Granted July 28, 2025
  The 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...
• BVACase 23002776 — Denied / Remanded / Granted January 17, 2023
  18-26 279 DATE: January 17, 2023 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim of entitlement to service connection for hearing loss is reopened....
• CAVCCase 91-1565 — Unknown June 11, 1993
  On 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 ...
• CAVCCase 00-499 — Affirmed / Vacated / Remanded September 14, 2004
  The appellant also contends that a remand is required because VA failed to adjudicate the appellant's claim for non-service-connected pension....
• DecisionCase 22020916 — Granted / Remanded April 7, 2022
  18-37 783 DATE: April 7, 2022 ORDER New and material evidence having been received, the claim for service connection for tinnitus is reopened....
• 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....
• 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")....
• BVACase 24030288 — Denied September 13, 2024
  The 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...
• BVACase 24032573 — Denied November 1, 2024
  The 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...
• DecisionCase 23010056 — Denied / Vacated February 16, 2023
  In December of 2019, the Board denied, in relevant part, entitlement to service connection for Meniere's disease....
• CAVCCase 97-1057 — Affirmed November 19, 1999
  In the first decision, dated March 6, 1997, the Board denied the appellant's claim for service connection of the veteran's death from cardiorespiratory failure due to lung cancer a...
• BVACase 210922-186906 — Denied / Vacated August 27, 2024
  The Board denied the claim of entitlement to TDIU in a December 2016 decision....
• CAVCCase 92-273 — Reversed August 24, 1993
  Bucklinger, appeals a January 27, 1992, Board of Veterans' Appeals (BVA or Board) decision denying an increased evaluation for his service-connected tinnitus and concluding that no...
• DecisionCase 23014078 — Denied / Remanded / Granted March 8, 2023
  A grant for service connection for a disability requires: (1) a present disability or persistent or recurrent symptoms of a disability; (2) an in-service incurrence or aggravation ...
• CAVCCase 95-997 — Affirmed June 24, 1996
  the June 1990 denial of service connection for the cause of the veteran's death and (2) the lack of new and material evidence to reopen a claim for service connection for the cause...
• BVACase 24026705 — Granted / Remanded July 17, 2024
  Service 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...