Clarence Hobbs v. Clinchfield Coal Company Director, Office of Workers Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor

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• noting that although physicians found that miner “suffers from respiratory problems arising out of coal mine employment, they both concluded that his total disability was caused by obesity and arthritis, but not by pneumoconiosis”
• upholding ALJ's decision because \the ALJ properly stated reasons why he discounted the opinions of [certain] doctors\
• approving ALJ's decision to credit physicians' opinions on issue of causation when their diagnoses of no coal workers' pneumoconiosis were not inconsistent with ALJ's finding of legal pneumoconiosis
• “Clinically, pneumoconiosis may be described in simple terms as a chronic lung disease marked by an overgrowth of connective tissue caused by the inhalation of certain dusts.”
• ALJ has obligation to explain reasons for crediting or rejecting evidence

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