Key legal question
Whether the psychiatric reports were sufficient to establish work capacity and disability
Extracted holding
No. The reports did not provide a reliable basis for determining work capacity because the PTSD diagnosis and its effects were not convincingly substantiated and the expert did not assess adapted work.
Extracted reasoning
The diagnosis was not adequately reconciled with the long chronology, the latent onset, and the claimant's training and treatment history; the expert also failed to critically engage with the claimant's subjective account and did not address ability in other suitable work.