Court Overturns Denial of Police Officer's Application for Duty Disability Pension

The Illinois Appellate Court overturned a pension board’s denial of a police officer’s application for a line-of-duty disability pension. Case: Guess v. Board of Trustees of the Dolton Police Pension Fund, No. 1-25-1327, 08/03/2026, unpublished. Facts: Theresa Guess served as a police officer in the Village of Dolton. In March 2020, she applied to the Board of Trustees of the Dolton Police Pension Fund to receive line-of-duty disability benefits. Guess claimed that she had begun experiencing disabling seizures as a result of a motor vehicle collision in September 2018. Tha...