In the case of State ex rel. Parker v. State Teachers Retirement Sys. Bd., 2021-Ohio-4391, the Tenth District Court of Appeals held that the denial of a teacher’s writ of mandamus seeking to compel the teacher’s retirement board to reapprove the teacher’s application for disability benefits was proper.
Here, the teacher argued that the teacher was improperly denied disability benefits after an independent medical examiner found that the teacher’s disability prevented the teacher from returning to the teacher’s original position of employment.
The Court of Appeals reasoned that because there was some evidence that the teacher was capable of working one full day per year as a substitute and three other physicians opined that the teacher should be denied disability benefits, the denial of the teacher’s writ of mandamus was proper.
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Authors: Matthew John Markling and the McGown & Markling Team.
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