Taft v. Board of Trustees

The plaintiff, William M. Taft, a sergeant of the defendant, village of Winthrop Harbor police department, brought suit against the board of trustees of the Police Pension Fund and the village of Winthrop Harbor, in the circuit court of Lake County, seeking administrative review of the disability line of duty pension awarded to him. While granting him a pension, the defendant police pension board ruled the monthly benefits payable under the pension were to be reduced by the amount of any benefits payable to the plaintiff under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, par.…