Attorney Kevin Lee Linder's Legal Cases

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Feb 16, 2010

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable outcome

Claimant is a 47 year old male with a high school education. His only past releveant work was assisting his father as a carpenter. The claimant had previously applied for disability alleging siezure di ... sorder and borderline intellectual functioning. Those applications were denied. Watson & Linder Law Office encouraged the claimant and his family to seek help at SIU School of Medicine. A board certified neuropsychologist evaluated the claimant and determined that the claimant had Asperger's Syndrome and had likely had Asperger's syndrome throughout his life. The ALJ ruled an onset date of December 31, 1989.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Feb 09, 2010

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable Decision

Claimant is a 55 year old female who had the past relevent work of a medical administrative assistant. The claimant alleged disability due to degenerative disc disease post cervical fusion and laminect ... omy; osteoarthritis; asthma; COPD; alpha 1 antitryspsin deficiency; selective IgG4 deficiency; histopasmosis post left upper lobe wedge resection; tachycardia; digestive problems; post abdominable surgeries with feeding jejunostomy tube placement and history of MRSA infection. The ALJ determined that Watson & Linder had developed the recrod sufficiently that there was no need to conduct a hearing so ruled in the claimant's favor stating she had been disabled since July 28, 2008.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Feb 01, 2010

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable Attorney Advisor Decision

Claimant is a 56 year old male who has an 8th grade education with prior work experience as a laborer and janitor. The claimant had degenerative changes in the lumbar spine with chronic low back pain, ... bilateral rotator cuff tendonitis, and a past history of polysbustance abuse. Watson & Linder successfully developed the medical evidence of record so that the claimant's physical restrictions were clear and the claimant was ruled disabled as of November 25, 2008. Watson & Linder developed the record sufficiently that no hearing was record based upon the pre-trial memorandum and medical evidence submitted by Watson & Linder.

Social Security & Disability

Social security Disability

Jan 29, 2010

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable Outcome

Claimant is a 44 year old male who had retired from the Army. His alleged disabilities were degenerative disc disease of the lumbar spine with surgical fusion, painful neuropathy in the feet, anxiety, ... depression, post traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse. Watson & Linder developed medical evidence which demonstrated that the claimant could not ambulate for evena third of the day and persist at even simple tasks. The disability onset date was Janaury 24, 2008.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability

Jan 25, 2010

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable Decision - over $20,000

Claimant was a 49 year old male with a 10th grade education and past relelvant work as a truck driver. Claimant was injured in a work related accident in 2003, but continued to receive workman's compen ... sation for a significant period of time. The ALJ found that the impairments of degenerative disc and degenerative joint disease. The claimant also has significant restrictions based upon medications that he is taking for pain which hinder his ability to work. The claimant was deemed disabled as of September 1, 2007

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Jan 03, 2010

OUTCOME: Partially Favorable Decision

Claimant was a 39 year old college educated female who had worked as an insurance sales person. The claimant suffered from Degenerative Disc Disease; Anxiety; Visual Disturbances; Ehlors-Danlos Syndrom ... e and Muscular weakness. The ALJ determined that the claimant was disabled August 28, 2006. The claimant also suffers from severe depression meeting listing requirements 12.04

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability case

Dec 23, 2009

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable Bench decision

Claimant was a lady who is currently 59 years of age. She had no vision in her left eye and had spinal fusion and implantation of a rod in her back in the 70s. Complications such as arthritis and narro ... wing of the spinal canal have developed. Specifically in the C5-6 and C7, T1-6, L4-5 and L5-S1. Range of Motion was decreased and claimant suffers from panic attacks after her father passed away in 2003. Past relevent work was as a furniture salesperson/interior decorator; and as a real estate agent. The vocational expert ruled out past relevent work once the functional limitations of the claimant were laid out by medical sources. The Administrative Law Judge ruled claimant was disabled as of February 18, 2009. Claimant is eligible for SSI and SSDI.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Dec 17, 2009

OUTCOME: Fully Favorable onset date to September 28, 2008

Claimant is a 55 year old female suffering from Multiple Sclerosis; Bipolar; Diabetes and Glaucoma. Her past relevent work is as a cashier and she is a HS graduate.The ALJ found that the impairments do ... meet a listing requirement when looked at in combination with each other. The claimant could perform Sedentary work, but not her past relevent work. Linder Law Office worked with the Claimant's physicians and counselors to develop Residual Functional Capactiy Questionnaires which rebutted the State Agency's determination that the Claimant could perform a higher level of work.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability Case

Dec 16, 2009

OUTCOME: Successful initial application

Claimant had previously applied for Social Security and been denied in 2004. A referral was made to Linder Law Office from another attorneys office. Linder Law Office filed an initial application with ... more evidence and the claimant was approved. The claimant is 59 years old who has arthritis in both knees; has had her right knee replaced and suffers from hypertension. The claimant suffers from severe pain and has limited capacity to walk. The claimant was determined to be disabled as of September 9, 2009.

Social Security & Disability

Social Security Disability

Dec 01, 2009

OUTCOME: Favorable Initial application

Claimant is a 32 year old male with a high school degree and some college. Past relevent work is several years of factory work and baker. The claimant alleged disability due to severe Spinal Stenosis. ... Linder Law office compiled medical records for his initial application documenting compression at C2-7 resulting in a laminectomy in 2004 and another in December 2007 with a fusion on the C2-C7. Doctors have since noted compression at L3-L5 and S1 with pressure on the nerve root at L4-L5. Claimant has numbness and atrophy of his right leg muscle. Linder Law Office submitted an inital case summary to the DDS examiner. Disability was determined as of December 20, 2007

Kevin Lee Linder's Legal Cases (81)

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Social Security Disability Case

Social security Disability

Social Security Disability

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Social Security Disability Case

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