LEDE: Fully favorable Administrative Law Judge of Feb. 13, 2013
John E. Horn of Horn & Kelley, PC, Attorneys at Law won the accompanying fully favorable Administrative Law Judge decision of Feb. 3, 2013. The Administrative Law Judge found that listing 5.05B was equaled because the medical expert at the hearing testified that claimant’s chronic liver disease equaled the severity contemplated by Paragraph B of section 5.05. Claimant’s cirrhosis and ascites improved since he discontinued excessive daily alcohol use, but he continues to experience weakness and esophageal varices, and he has cysts and lesions in the liver, as well as fatigue and malaise.