· 8/29/1994
Maine Drilling & Blasting, Inc. v. Insurance Co. of North America
Citations
- 34 F.3d 1
- 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 23547
- 1994 WL 456860
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that an ALJ may not rely on a VE’s response to a hypothetical question which did not contain all of the claimant’s limitations
- noting that the Court on occasion certifies \questions to a state's highest court upon our own motion\
- ALJ cannot rely on VE’s testimony when hypothetical impermissibly omitted any mention of a significant functional limitation
- “[A]n ALJ is not free to substitute his own judgment for uncontroverted medical opinion”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Breyer, Coffin, Torruella
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