Legal Opinion
Cosgrove v. State Employes' Retirement Board
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 2, 1995PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LORD, Senior Judge.
Francis Cosgrove, Jr., Edward Carter Higbee and Melvin Machine (Petitioners) appeal a State Employes’ Retirement Board (SERB) decision that essentially adopted a hearing examiner’s opinion denying their request to change their retirement benefit option elections under the State Employees’ Retirement Code (Retirement Code), 71 Pa. C.S. §§ 6101-5956.
Petitioners retired in 1986 (Cosgrove) and 1988 (Higbee and Machine), before the age of 65, as employees of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare and members of the State Employes’ Retirement System (SERS). Petitioners had…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Central Storage & Transfer Co. v. KaplanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
- Chester Extended Care Center v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1991
- Finnegan v. SCHOOL EMP. RETIREMENT BD.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
- Pennsylvania Ass'n of State Mental Hospital Physicians, Inc. v. State Employees' Retirement BoardSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
- Pennsylvania Ass'n of State Mental Hospital Physicians v. State Employees' Retirement BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Higgins v. Public School Employes' Retirement SystemCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1999
- Burris v. State Employes' Retirement BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
- Welsh v. State Employees' Retirement BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2002
- McCormack v. State Employees' Retirement BoardCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2004
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