Patterson v. Board of Trustees, State Police

Moore v. Board of Trustees, State Police Reitrement
System (A-101-05)
Guadagno v. Board of Trustees, Police and Firemen’s
Retirement System (A-123-05)

A member of the State Police Retirement System or the Police and
Firemen’s Retirement System who suffers from a permanent and
total mental disability as a result of a mental stressor,
without any physical impact, is entitled to accidental
disability retirement if the disability was the direct result of
a mental stressor that was identifiable as to time and place,
that was undesigned and unexpected, that was external to the
member (not the result of a pre-existing disease aggravated or
accelerated by the work), that occurred during and as a result
of the member’s duties, and that was not the result of the
member’s willful negligence. Additionally, the disability must
result from direct personal experience or a terrifying or
horror-inducing event that involved actual or threatened death
or serious injury, or a similarly serious threat to the physical
integrity of the member or another person.