Gary Warner v. Commissioner of Social Security

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• holding that the ALJ justifiably considered Warner's ability to conduct daily life activities in the face of his claim of disabling pain.
• stating that “[t]he determination of disability is ultimately the prerogative of the Commissioner, not the treating physician”
• noting that physician’s conclusion regarding amount of weight plaintiff could lift regularly appeared to be based on plaintiff’s own assessment rather than medical evidence
• finding that an ALJ properly discounted an opinion about the amount of weight the claimant could lift because it “appears to be based not upon his own medical conclusion, but upon … [the claimant’s] own assessment of his weight-lifting limitations.”
• permitting an ALJ to consider daily activities such as housework and social activities in evaluating complaints of disabling pain
• upholding ALJ’s decision discrediting claimant’s subjective assessment of pain even though one of the two stated reasons was in error because the other stated reason was supported by substantial evidence

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