7th Circuit:  Failure To Consider Disability Claimant’s Inability To Sit Was Error

(September 6, 2023, 9:59 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A district court committed clear error by failing to consider that a disability claimant was unable to sit at a desk for eight hours a day because the ability to sit at a desk for eight hours a day is required to perform the duties of his own occupation, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in vacating and remanding the district court’s ruling in favor of a disability insurer....