Willard M. Toler v. Eastern Associated Coal Company Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor

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• holding that an ALJ “may not credit” a medical opinion of no causation “unless [she] can and does identify specific and persuasive reasons” as to why the opinion on causation does not depend on the presence of pneumoconiosis
• vacating ALJ finding on disability causation where ALJ relied upon the opinions of doctors who erroneously failed to diagnose pneumoconiosis

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