Nathaniel O Hubley’s Guides

During the fourth of the five-step sequential disability determination process, the Vocational Expert ("VE") takes the claimant's assigned Residual Functional Capacity ("RFC") for work and matches it against the job data in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles ("DOT") to determi...

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The DOT is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor that provides basic occupational information by classifying jobs into occupations based on their similarities and also defining the structure and content of all listed occupations. Interestingly, this source was last modifi...

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At the fourth of the five-step sequential disability determination, the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") relieson VE testimony on a limited basis; at the fifth step, however, the SSA relies heavily on testimony from theVE who forms his or her opinion after reviewing the disabilit...

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Like most valid and recognized adjudication systems, the SSA's five-step disability determination process is based on the notion of fundamental fairness. Understanding how the five-step process works is crucial; accordingly, two key concepts should be realized: first, the analysi...

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The State of Indiana is considered an employment-at-will state. This means that an employer can fire an employee for any reason, whether good or bad, as long as it is not an illegal reason. One of my previousguidesdiscusses in detail what is considered an illegal reason. Because...

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Indiana Code 22-2-9-1 defines "wages" as "all amounts at which the labor or service rendered is recompensed, whether the amount is fixed or ascertained on a time, task, piece, or commission basis, or in any other method of calculating such amount. Commissions are also generally ...

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This Guide discusses the three main worker's compensation benefits available to workers in the State of Indiana. Generally, most worker's compensation cases will involve some form of compensation involving the three main type of benefits.

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The purpose of this guide is to assist employees who believe they have been discriminated against in the workplace by co-workers or by their employer.

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The SSA, with the authority granted to it by the Social Security Act, provides cash and insurance benefits to individuals through two disability programs, both of which use the same disability determination process, butboth of which also have different, yet complementary, goals. ...

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Attorney Nathaniel Hubley is a Fort Wayne, Indiana Injury and Disability Attorney. In response to mounting concerns about the reliability of VE testimony, the SSA enacted S.S.R. 00-4p as an administrative check on the broad credibility granted to VEs. S.S.R. 00-4p is essentially...

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