Hancock v. Shoenle & Philips Police Equipment Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a physical therapist is a “non-acceptable medical source.”
• first citing Loral Def. Sys.-Akron v. N.L.R.B., 200 F.3d 436, 453 (6th Cir. 1999); and then citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.953
• first citing Loral Def. Sys.-Akron v. N.L.R.B., 200 F.3d 436, 453 (6th Cir. 1999); and then citing 20 C.F.R. § 404.953
• “[T]he ALJ’s failure to state weight given to a treating physician’s opinion may be a harmless error where he adopts the opinion of the treating source
• physical therapists are a “non-acceptable medical source” requiring only minimal articulation by the ALJ
• The ALJ is “not required to state weight given to opinion of a non-treating physician, however, the ALJ’s decision still must say enough to allow the appellate court to trace the path of his reasoning[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).