Joshua Potter will be addressing Dr. Kim’s graduate class of rehabilitation students on September 25. The topic of the day is The Disability Rights Community & Disability Issues in a Global Context. We will look at life beyond rehabilitation: what happens if nothing happens? Every case is not a success story. Social Security disability may need […]
Ethics Class at the September 15 NOSSCR
Joshua Potter will be presenting a one hour Ethics class at the September 15 NOSSCR national conference for Social Security Disability representatives in Scottsdale Arizona. He will be joined by legal malpractice expert Stephen Ball. The new medical standard in which the judge need not explain how he weighed the medical evidence will be considered. This single […]
Social Security Eliminates the Presumption of Correctness
Social Security will be implementing a rule change that eliminates the presumption of correctness regarding the opinion of the treating physician. Under the new rules, a judge can adopt any medical opinion, no matter how unqualified, even without a review of the medical records! The judge does not have to weight or explain why he […]