Galuszka v. State Employees' Retirement System

GRIFFIN, EJ.

Respondent State Employees’ Retirement System appeals by leave granted an order of the Ingham Circuit Court reversing a decision by the State Employees’ Retirement Board (the Board) denying duty-disability retirement benefits to petitioner. We reverse and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

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Fetitioner Barbara A. Galuszka worked for the Michigan Employment Security Commission (now the Unemployment Insurance Agency) from 1990 to December 1996. During the last four years of her employment, petitioner worked as an unemployment claims examiner. In June 1999, petitioner…