Disability Claimant Can Supplement Administrative Record With Some Information

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A disability claimant is permitted to supplement the administrative record with information from a disability insurer's claims manual pertaining to the handling of vocational analyses and subjective pain complaints because the information is relevant to the review of the claimant's long-term disability benefits claim, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said April 23 (Natalya Prohkorova v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 17-30064, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67548).
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