Winn v. Commissioner, No. 17-1987 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the denial of social security disability insurance benefits on remand. The court held that the ALJ did not err in discounting the opinion of plaintiff's treating physician as not supported by objective medical evidence in the administrative record. Furthermore, the opinion was contrary to medically supported opinions of two specialists. The court agreed with the district court that the vocational expert identified another job plaintiff could perform with limited hand functioning, and there was nothing in the record suggesting that his impairments require that he be limited to occasional rather than frequent handling.
Court Description: Loken, Author, with Benton and Erickson, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Social Security. The ALJ did not err in weighing the treating physician's opinion on claimant's functional limitations and giving it less than controlling weight as the opinion that claimant had suffered permanent, disabling nerve damage was not supported by objective medical evidence in the administrative record and was, in fact contrary to two specialists' medically supported opinions; argument concerning whether the ALJ attributed greater hand functioning to claimant than the medical evidence supported rejected.
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