Social Security & Disability Lawyer
Practice Areas: Social Security
OUTCOME: Secured remand back to SSA
ALJ RFC to light work not supported by substantial evidence when treating doctor opinion conflicted with ALJ's assessment. Claimant was failed spinal surgery and Workers Compensation carrier failed to ... approve needed surgery. Claimant required cane and MRI showed signficant degenerative conditions.
OUTCOME: Reversed. Court ordered SSA to award benefits
ALJ improperly rejected treating doctor opinion statement regarding disabling anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.
OUTCOME: Secured remand back to SSA
ALJ failed to properly consider all medical evidence relevant to claimant's fibromyalgia, scleroderma and interstitial lung disease.
OUTCOME: Secured remand back to SSA
ALJ failed to properly evaluate whether claimant could maintain employment given allegations of low back pain. Also, medical expert stated further development of mental disorder was required to assess ... that impairment. District court ordered SSA to perform consultative psychiatric examination and thereafter re-assess the severity of claimant's complaints and its impact on full time work.
OUTCOME: Secured remand back to SSA
ALJ failed to properly consider whether claimant met C criteria for bipolar disorder.
OUTCOME: Remand
Medical Evidence must support determination that alcoholism is material
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