Valere Poulin v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services

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• instructing that “[t]he presence of a mental disorder should be documented primarily on the basis of reports from . . . psychiatrists”
• remanding a claim in part because the ALJ failed to request records for a nineteen-month gap during claimant’s qualifying period
• remanding denial of schizophrenic claimant’s disability benefits for further development of evidence bearing on onset date of her mental disability
• remanding denial of schizophrenic claimant's disability benefits for further development of evidence bearing on onset date of her mental disability
• remanding a 13 claim in part because the ALJ failed to request records for a nineteen-month gap during claimant’s qualifying period
• “Because a claimant’s treating physicians have great familiarity with his condition, their reports must be accorded substantial weight.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).