FROM: Barbara Hannah, Chief Counsel
SUBJECT: Disability Retirement Application of Cameron Pratt
RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve the Service-Connected Disability Retirement application (Optional Death Allowance - §31787) of Cameron Pratt - County of San Bernardino - Sheriff.
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Requested Benefit:
1. Service-Connected Disability Retirement (Optional Death Allowance - §31787)
Staff Recommendation:
1. Cameron Pratt is permanently incapacitated for the performance of duties and a disability retirement should be granted. (Member deceased on June 7, 2020.)
2. Cameron Pratt’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. The benefit type payable to Melissa S. Pratt, surviving spouse, is payable under Government Code section 31787 as an Optional Death Allowance.
4. Staff shall initiate the Optional Death Allowance with an effective date of June 8, 2020, the day after the deceased member’s death.
BACKGROUND:
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