Rectal Cancer Victory

 We won Social Security Disability for a rectal cancer survivor. We won benefits back to 2021. It did take two hearings. The first time the judge refused to accept the opinions of the claimant’s doctors. The judge even ignored the opinion of the reviewing Social Security doctor at Reconsideration. At the time of the second hearing, the judge agreed to send her case to be reviewed by an independent cancer doctor. This will result in $60,000.00 in back benefits. The independent doctor agreed the claimant could not function in “any” type of work.

Rectal Cancer Disability

 After a long struggle we won Social Security Disability for a man who has been disabled since July 2021 due an onset of rectal cancer. We lost the initial hearing because the judge ignored critical evidence from three doctors. The Social Security Appeals council remanded the case due to this evidence that was ignored. On remand we had our second hearing. This time the judge asked for an opinion from an independent cancer doctor. She agreed with the claimant’s doctors that my client was totally disabled.