Lawrence E. OLIVER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee

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• finding that the claimant did not have good cause for failing to obtain additional medical tests in advance of his administrative hearing before the ALJ
• finding that the claimant did not have good cause for failing to obtain additional medical tests in advance of his administrative hearing before the ALJ
• finding failure to satisfy good cause requirement where additional medical records were prepared after final decision and could not have been presented at hearing
• noting the Sixth Circuit has taken a “harder line on the good cause test” and holding a claimant “must give a valid reason for [their] failure to obtain evidence prior to the hearing”
• report compiled in March 1985 not material because it does not reveal information about claimant’s condition in December 1983, when Secretary decided
• good cause requirement not met where plaintiff did not have a valid reason for his failure to obtain medical evaluations prior to the hearing

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