Legal Opinion
Kathy Stark v. Carolyn Colvin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 22, 2016No. 15-2352PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judges.
Kathy Stark, aged 60, applied for disability insurance benefits, primarily asserting that she is disabled by degenerative disc disease that causes severe back, neck, and hip pain. The ALJ denied her application largely on the basis that she did not testify credibly about the severity of her pain. We agree with Stark that the credibility analysis was flawed and remand the case to the agency for further proceedings.
I. BACKGROUND
Before her back pain forced her to stop working in 2009, Stark had worked for over ten years as a yard driver, moving pick-up trucks at a General…
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