PERA
MN PERA Police and Fire Plan Retirement Benefits and Workers’ Compensation Permanent Total Disability: Have You Been Underpaid?
Minnesota’s disabled police officers and firefighters are often eligible for disability benefits – either duty or regular – through the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) Police and Fire Plan. However, there are certain age and service limitations regulating who can apply for… Read more »
Meet a Coon Rapids Fire Captain Whose Life Changed While In The Line Of Duty
Meuser Law Office, P.A. is honored to have represented Ken Boelter, a Fire Captain in Coon Rapids for 16 years. On a beautiful fall day, Ken and his crew were called to action when a house fire broke out. On… Read more »
Firefighters for Healing Red Tie Gala
By all accounts, the first annual Firefighters for Healing Red Tie Gala was a huge success! More than 400 attendees showed up on Saturday November 7, 2015, at the Exchange Club in the historic Lumber Exchange Building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, dressed in their… Read more »
What to Do When Offered “Light Duty” Work
Recovering from an injury is a slow process. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably has never been seriously injured. Suffering an injury involves damage and harm done to your body or mind, an impairment to your normal functioning. In other… Read more »
Applying for PERA Duty Disability
When you are applying for a Police Officer and Firefighter Plan PERA Duty Disability benefit, it is important to know that there are some very complicated rules that apply. If your attorney is not aware of some of these rules, it can… Read more »
NOID Conference
You walk out to your mailbox, open it and receive a letter. Looking at the letter, you see that it is from your Minnesota workers’ compensation insurance company. Curiously yet apprehensively, you open the letter. It is a Notice of Intent… Read more »
How to Calculate Duty Disability Benefits
One issue that comes up in virtually every case we handle involving a firefighter or police officer claim, where the individual is awarded PERA Duty Disability benefits is the question of how are those benefits coordinated with other sources of income? For… Read more »
Minnesota Police Officer and Firefighter Disability Benefits
You no longer carry the badge, but you carry the battle scars. Throughout your career as a public servant, you have risked life and limb to protect the safety and property of the public. Now, with a career-ending injury, you… Read more »
Dangers of Not Knowing the 2 Year Rule
You became a firefighter because you love the thrill and action of the job. Split second responses to danger. Not an office job, not a 9 to 5, but an ever ready 24-hour shift. Yet last week, tragedy struck –… Read more »
PTSD and Psychological Injuries: Eligible Benefits
According to the Mayo Clinic, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (“PTSD”) is a “mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event—either experiencing it or witnessing it.” PTSD onset can be unpredictable: it may occur after a single event or several events; it may occur… Read more »