Legal Opinion
Adgerson v. Police & Firefighters' Retirement & Relief Board
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 15, 2013No. 12-AA-357PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKWITH, Associate Judge:
Petitioner Eric Adgerson, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, fully recovered from surgery fusing four of the seven vertebrae in his neck. Yet he was forced to retire from the department with a disability annuity because of what the Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board deemed an “unacceptable risk” that a blow to his newly inflexible neck while on duty would paralyze him and endanger the public.
His petition asks us to find that the Board erred in determining that his post-surgical condition permanently disabled him from duty as a police officer…
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