Alaura v. Colvin

Remand was required in instant denial of claimant’s application for Social Security disability benefits, where claimant alleged that he suffered from chronic daily headaches, left occipital neuralgia, seizure activity, myofascial pain and mood disorder, and where ALJ failed to address doctor’s treatment of claimant’s conditions and further failed to consider combined effects of all of claimant’s impairments on his ability to work. Ct. further criticized ALJ for failing to seek out SSA medical consultants for opinion on claimant’s medical condition, where most recent medical opinion took place more than one year prior to hearing. It also criticized vocational expert, who failed to adequately explain statistical basis for opinion that plaintiff could perform three jobs with claimant’s impairments.