Kertesz v. Crescent Hills Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an ALJ should reject any medical opinion that is insufficiently reasoned or reaches a conclusion contrary to objective clinical evidence
• requiring the party opposing the benefits to point to “persuasive evidence” to rebut the presumption of disability
• “[T]he 17 ALJ should reject as insufficiently reasoned any medical opinion that reaches a conclusion contrary to objective clinical evidence without explanation.”
• “[T]he ALJ should reject as insufficiently reasoned any medical opinion that reaches a conclusion contrary to objective clinical evidence without explanation.”
• ‘The ALJ is not bound to accept the opinion or theory of any medical expert, but may weigh the medical evidence and draw its own inferences.”
• the ALJ should review all medical evidence presented in determining presence of pneumoconiosis

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