Key legal question
Whether the MEDAS expert opinion establishing 70% capacity in adapted work was sufficiently reliable without a new lumbar MRI.
Extracted holding
The expert assessment was persuasive; the absence of a current MRI did not undermine its probative value.
Extracted reasoning
The complaint was largely inadmissible appellate criticism. The prior MRI showed only small herniations without nerve-root compression, and no new decisive findings arose from the treating physicians' examinations.