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GARRISON v. HECKLER

No. 84-1811.

765 F.2d 710 (1985)

Willie GARRISON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Stefans, Stefans, Stefans & Stefans, Chicago, Ill., Neal J. Barkan, Barkan & Barkan Co., L.P.A., Columbus, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellant.

Steven Plotkin, Office of Reg. Atty., Health & Human Services, Eileen M. Marutzky, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD, COFFEY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Stephens v. Heckler, ___ F.2d ___ No. 84-1994 (7th Cir. June 21, 1985), holds that when physicians who have examined a claimant for disability benefits disagree about the severity of the claimant's impairment, the administrative agency rationally may give greater weight to the opinion of a consulting physician because the consulting physician may bring to the case something the treating...

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