State Ex Rel. Shisler v. Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

{¶ 1} This is an appeal from a judgment denying a writ of mandamus to compel appellee, Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (“PERS”), to accept the election of a pension-payment plan executed by a PERS retiree and directing PERS to provide the retiree’s surviving spouse with a monthly benefit based on a joint-survivorship annuity in accordance with the election. Because PERS did not abuse its discretion in denying the surviving spouse’s request for the jointsurvivorship annuity when the retiree died before his election became effective, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

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