Firemen's Pension Fund v. Brown

David Newbern, Justice.

The question in this case is whether pension payments from a Firemen’s Relief and Pension Fund should begin upon retirement or be made retroactive to the date of the disability upon which the retirement is based. We hold it was the intention of the general assembly, expressed in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 19-2205 (Repl. 1980), to make the pension payments beginning with retirement. Thus we reverse the circuit court’s ruling that the appellant must make the payments retroactive to the time the disability occurred.

The appellee, Glen E. Brown, sustained a back injury on his job as…