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Legal counsel reviews expanded disability presumptions for safety members
Summary
Vivian Schultz, disability retirement counsel, briefed the ISERS board on legacy and recently added statutory presumptions (including PTSD and low‑back impairment) that affect determinations of service connection for certain safety employees.
Vivian Schultz, the retirement system’s disability retirement counsel, spent the board’s March 19 meeting reviewing disability retirement presumptions that apply to ISERS members under the 1937 Act and more recent statutory additions.
Schultz told trustees that the system’s longstanding “legacy” presumptions — heart trouble, cancer, bloodborne infectious disease and biochemical substance exposure — remain in place and are supported by case law. She also walked the board through a set of newer presumptions added by recent legislation, including post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), low‑back impairment (the “duty‑belt” presumption), skin cancer, Lyme disease, meningitis, tuberculosis and certain hernia/pneumonia claims.
Schultz emphasized that presumptions operate only if an applicant is permanently incapacitated and otherwise meets the statutory prerequisites (for example, holding a covered…
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