Wagner v. Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund

PRESIDING JUSTICE RARICK

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Dale Wagner, filed a petition for a duty-related disability pension with defendant Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund of Belleville (the Board). After a hearing, the Board determined that Wagner’s condition was not duty related but that he was entitled to a non-duty-related disability pension. Wagner filed a complaint for administrative review, and the trial court reversed the decision of the Board, finding that the Board’s determination that Wagner’s disability was not duty related was against the manifest weight…