Patterson v. Board of Trustees, State Police Retirement System

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• stating that the standard for accidental disability benefits is the same for the SPRS, Police and Firemen's Retirement System, and Public Employee's Retirement System
• finding the only meaningful distinction between the two standards is that an ordinary disability applicant does not need to show a work connection
• setting forth the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria, which omit the emphasized words
• \[A]n accidental disability retirement entitles a member to receive a higher level of benefits than those provided under an ordinary disability retirement.\ (citing Richardson v. Bd. of Trs., Police and Firemen's Ret. Sys., 192 N.J. 189, 194 (2007))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).