Quesenberry v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

McAULIFFE, Judge.

The Employees’ Retirement Plan of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) provides an increased level of benefits to an employee under certain circumstances when the cause of disability is “more than fifty percent the result of an accident occurring in the actual performance of duty.” Believing he qualified for those benefits, Appellant filed a claim with the Retirement Coordinator of the WSSC. Meeting with no success, Appellant then filed an action in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, seeking declaratory relief and damages for breach of contract. WSSC…