Duncan v. Retired Public Employees of Alaska, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “accrued benefits,” as a term, “includes all retirement benefits that make up the retirement benefit package that becomes part of the contract of employment when the public employee is hired”
• holding that “accrued benefits” include “all retirement benefits that make up the retirement benefit package that becomes part of the contract of employment when the public employee is hired, including health insurance benefits”
• holding employees with contributions in PERS were also entitled to promised health insurance coverage
• giving comparable provision of Alaska constitution “its natural and ordinary meaning,” there “is little question” that it encompasses “health insurance benefits offered to public employee retirees”
• distinguishing these scenarios from the evidence in that case amounting to a detriment of several hundreds of dollars per year
• giving comparable provision of Alaska Constitution “its natural and ordinary meaning,” there “is little question” that it encompasses “health insurance benefits offered to public employee retirees”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).