Susan M. O’Malley

Ms. O’Malley is a North Carolina State Bar Certified Specialist in Social Security Disability Law. She was an original board member of the specialization committee. Ms. O’Malley has appealed and won cases Social Security disability cases in Federal District such as Joyner v. Barnhart. She won Hines v. Barnhart in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. This case reaffirmed important rights for Social Security claimants to prove their disability through testimony regarding how pain limits their ability to work. She also won Willey v. Williamson Produce, a workers’ compensation case, before the...