Hammond v. Hoffbeck

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

In 1975, the State Department of Administration commissioned an actuarial study of the Alaska Public Employees’ Retirement System (hereinafter PERS). The results of that study led, in 1976, to several amendments to the statutory scheme underlying PERS. Ch. 123 S.L.A. 1976. Among those amendments were provisions which eliminated the distinction the system had previously made between public safety employees— police officers and fire fighters — and other participants in PERS. The new provisions had the effect of 1) reducing the occupational disability benefits of…