Kozak v. Retirement Board of Firemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund

Defendant-appellant, the Retirement Board of the Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County requiring that it pay prejudgment interest on certain judgments entered against it for retroactive widows’ annuity payments previously held by this court and the Illinois Supreme Court to be owed to plaintiff-appellee Kozak. Kozak v. Retirement Board (1981), 99 Ill. App. 3d 1015, 425 N.E.2d 1371, aff’d (1983), 95 Ill. 2d 211, 447 N.E.2d 394.

In the trial court, plaintiff advanced three separate bases for the award of prejudgment interest: a…