Accountability Of Job Experts For Disability Cases Sought By Claimant

(September 5, 2018, 11:19 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Requiring vocational experts at Social Security proceedings to substantiate their opinions is necessary to provide the mandated “substantial evidence” of job availability and does not run afoul of the bar on federal evidentiary and Daubert standards for such proceedings, an applicant who was denied disability benefits argues in an Aug. 27 U.S. Supreme Court brief on the merits (Michael J. Biestek v. Nancy A. Berryhill, No. 17-1184, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3117)....

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