Rejection of the Claimant's Pension Claim by the IV-Stelle Bern

Facts

M., born in 1955, reported to the Disability Insurance (IV) in late October 2003 after an operation on her right shoulder in March 2003 and requested vocational integration measures and a pension. The IV-Stelle Bern denied the claim for a pension in a decision dated 31 March 2006, which it confirmed in an objection decision dated 13 December 2006. M.'s appeal was dismissed by the Administrative Court of the Canton of Bern, Social Insurance Law Division, in a decision dated 3 October 2007.

Considerations

The Federal Supreme Court notes that the findings of the cantonal court on the state of health and the ability to work, based on the MEDAS expert opinion of 13 December 2005, are not obviously incorrect. The criticism of the expert opinion itself is largely appellatory in nature and therefore cannot be heard.

The Federal Supreme Court considers the MEDAS assessment of the ability to work to be conclusive. The deviating assessment of the treating psychiatrist, Dr. med. G., cannot change this, at least as far as the period up to the MEDAS expert opinion is concerned. Psychosocial and sociocultural factors cannot be understood…