Arnold v. State Employees' Retirement Board

Petitioner appeals as of right from a Wayne Circuit Court order affirming the State Employees’ Retirement Board’s denial of her request for duty-disability benefits. We affirm.

Section 21 of the State Employees’ Retirement Act, MCL 38.21; MSA 3.981(21), provides in part:

Subject to the provisions of sections 33 and 34, upon the application of a member, or his department head, or the state personnel director, a member who becomes totally incapacitated for duty in the service of the state of Michigan without willful negligence on his part, by reason of a personal injury or disease, which the…