FROM: Barbara Hannah, Chief Counsel
SUBJECT: Disability Retirement Application of Robb E. Myers
RECOMMENDATION:
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Review and determine the Service-Connected Disability Retirement application of Robb E. Myers - San Bernardino County - Probation.
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Requested Benefit:
1. Service-Connected Disability Retirement
Staff Recommendation:
1. Robb E. Myers is permanently incapacitated for the performance of duties and a disability retirement should be granted.
2. Robb E. Myers’s disability is service-connected based on the claimed injury(ies)/disease as listed in Exhibit A; therefore, grant a service-connected disability benefit.
3. Staff shall initiate disability benefit payments with an effective date of February 6, 2023, date of application.
BACKGROUND:
The only issue in dispute is the effective date for the service-connected disability retirement benefit. Mr. Myers requested an effective date of August 7, 2022. For reasons stated in Exhibit A, staff recommends approving the effective date of February 6, 2023, date of application. Since there is a dispute regarding the effective date, the matter will be held in closed session.
Medical Advisor - Jeffrey Wainstein, M.D.
Attorney - None
STAFF CONTACT:
Barbara Hannah
David Lantzer
ATTACHMENTS:
Exhibit A: Claimed Injury or Disease
Exhibit B: Demographic Information
Exhibit C: Medical Advisor’s Report
Exhibit D: Independent Medical Examiner’s Report
Exhibit E: Applicant’s Statement of Facts and Physician’s Report
Exhibit F: Department Statement of Facts
Exhibit G: Job Description, Physical Requirements