Roszak v. Kankakee Firefighters' Pension Board

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• indicating an applicant for disability pension had the burden of showing his entitlement
• all three pension board-appointed physicians found that the plaintiff was disabled or incapable of performing his duties as a firefighter
• pension board’s discrediting of applicant was against manifest weight of the evidence where it relied on evidence unrelated to the disability and not supported by the record
• Board could not point to tangential inconsistencies regarding, for example, the applicant’s living arrangements as a basis to discount the unanimous opinion of the applicant’s doctors that the applicant was disabled
• firefighter has the burden of proving he is entitled to disability pension

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