Employees' Retirement System v. Dorsey

Baltimore City Code (2012), Article 22, § 9(j)1 lays out the eligibility requirements for certain employees of the City of Baltimore to receive line-of-duty disability retirement benefits.2 That section requires a claimant seeking such benefits to prove that he or she sustained at least a “50% anatomical loss of the use of any 1 or at least a 25% or more anatomical loss of each of 2 or more” enumerated body parts. § 9(j)(5)(ii), (iii). The loss of use must be

*104the direct result of bodily injury through an accident independent of all other causes and independent of any preexisting physical or…