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· 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”

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Judges: Breyer, Coffin, Torruella

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