In re the Pera Police & Fire Plan Line of Duty Disability Benefits of Brittain

OPINION

KLAPHAKE, Judge.

By writ of certiorari, relator appeals from the decision of the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) denying him line-of-duty disability benefits payable under Minn.Stat. § 353.656, subd. 1 (2004). PERA interpreted the statute to provide line-of-duty benefits only when the injury, sickness, or disability was incurred during a hazardous situation.

Because the statute provides line-of-duty benefits to a person injured during “any act of duty,” without limitation to hazardous situations, we reverse.

FACTS

Relator Stephen Brittain had been a Ramsey County Deputy…