United States Eighth Circuit

District court's denial of petitioner's application for disability insurance benefits and social security income is affirmed where: 1) substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the ALJ's conclusion in not giving controlling weight to the treating physicians' opinions when there was conflicting evidence about claimant's ability to perform work; 2) ALJ did not err in rejecting claimant's subjective complaints based on the evidence; 3) ALJ sufficiently reviewed the record and his decision referenced claimant's obesity; 4)hypothetical posed by the ALJ did not improperly exclude claimant's subjective pain allegations as it was unsupported by the record.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2009
• Published 08/27/2009

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, SMITH, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hugh M. Field, argued, Waterloo, IA, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark S. Naggi, Special AUSA, argued, Kansas, City, MO, for appellee.