KKC v. Colvin, No. 15-1030 (8th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseRobert Dean Carter appealed the denial of his application for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income. The ALJ concluded that Carter was not disabled because he did not have an impairment or combination of impairments that met or medically equaled one of the listed impairments for chronic heart failure and because Carter had the residual functional capacity (RFC) to perform a limited range of sedentary work. After Carter died, Carter's daughter, KKC, appealed the denial of benefits. The court concluded that substantial evidence supports the ALJ’s finding that Carter’s impairment did not meet section 4.02(B)(1) and 4.02(B)(3); the ALJ did not err by refusing to give controlling weight to the opinion of Carter's treating physician where the physician's statement at issue did not resolve the legal issue of whether Carter was disabled; and the ALJ’s RFC assessment was supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Wollman, Author, with Bright and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Social Security. The ALJ did not err in concluding that claimant's condition did not meet or equal the criteria of a chronic heart failure listing; the ALJ did not err in refusing to give controlling weight to the opinion of claimant's treating physician as it went to the ultimate legal issue reserved for the Commissioner; the ALJ's determination that claimant had maintained the Residual Functional Capacity to perform sedentary work with certain limitations and that such jobs existed in significant numbers was supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole. Judge Bright, dissenting.
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