Fields v. Schaumburg Firefighters' Pension Board

PRESIDING JUSTICE McBRIDE

delivered the opinion of the court:

John M. Fields, a former fire captain of the Village of Schaumburg, filed an action in March 2004 against the Schaumburg Firefighters’ Pension Fund and the pension board’s president, Roger Turk, regarding a village employee’s miscalculation of Fields’ retirement pension benefits by almost 43%. Fields alleged the village employee’s recalculation of his benefits in 2003 to implement an annual cost-of-living increase was a “final administrative decision” by the board. He further alleged he could retain the recalculation because the…