Legal Opinion
Byous v. Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System Board of Trustees
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided March 8, 2005No. WD 63537PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS H. NEWTON, Presiding Judge.
Mr. Glen Byous became permanently and totally incapacitated from his job as a firefighter after he had a heart attack on September 26, 2000, and was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. As a member of the Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement System (LAGERS), he sought work-related disability benefits. Although he was entitled to the statutory presumption that his disability was work-related, the LAGERS Board of Trustees (Board) found that this presumption was rebutted by competent evidence.
The statutory presumption shifts both the burden of…
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- Knapp v. Missouri Local Government Employees Retirement SystemMissouri Court of Appeals · 1987
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