Neal v. Bowen

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

Rosalea Neal, substitute party for the deceased claimant, Dixie Pumphrey, appeals from the decision of the Secretary to deny disability insurance benefits for the period of June 1978 to October 1983, the time of the claimant’s death. We vacate and remand with instructions.

In June 1978, the claimant was diagnosed as suffering from a malignant melanoma on his right back, which was excised shortly thereafter. Subsequently, he experienced no further connected symptoms until he was diagnosed in December 1981 as having a metastatic malignant melanoma in his right axilla.…