Petrillo v. Public Employees Retirement Board

Petitioner seeks judicial review of a final order of the Public Employees Retirement Board (PERB) that allowed the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) to recoup an overpayment of benefits paid to petitioner as a beneficiary of his late wife’s PERS account. Petitioner argues that a 2004 settlement agreement bars PERS from recovering the overpayment and that, under the agreement, the Marion County Circuit Court has exclusive jurisdiction over this dispute. We conclude that the settlement agreement resolved only early claims in prior litigation, does not prevent recovery of the…