Public Employees' Retirement System v. Collins

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. The Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) appeals the Hinds County Circuit Court’s judgment to reverse PERS’s decision that William Collins was ineligible for disability benefits based on coronary artery disease (CAD). Finding that substantial evidence supported PERS’s decision, we reverse the judgment of the circuit court and render to reinstate the PERS’s decision.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. Collins is a fifty-seven-year-old man from the Hurley community in Jackson County, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he worked for International…