Tommasetti v. Astrue

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• holding that inconsistency with medical evidence is a specific and legitimate reason for rejecting a physician’s opinion
• holding that it was not unreasonable for ALJ to infer that claimant may not have been motivated to work due to his financial reserve
• concluding that the incongruity between a physician’s opinions and her medical records provided a specific and legitimate reason for rejecting her opinion of the claimant’s limitations
• holding that an ALJ may reject a medical opinion relying upon a claimant’s self-reporting that was properly discounted as not credible
• holding that an ALJ did not err in rejecting a medical opinion that conflicted with another medical opinion in the record
• concluding that ALJ properly relied on inconsistency with other medical evidence to reject opinion of treating physician

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