Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
I often refer to a favorite short story of mine, inasmuch as it serves as a paradigm for why I practice disability retirement law: the master storyteller, Anton Chekhov, wrote a brilliant short story entitled, Grief (translator’s subtitle […]
Fortunately, most of my cases which are submitted before the Office of Personnel Management at the Initial Stage are approved. It is important to step back and […]
If disability retirement were merely a matter of determining the proper diagnosis of a medical condition, and having a doctor […]
When the Office of Personnel Management approves an OPM disability retirement application, as I stated in the previous article (OPM’s […]
When the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) approves a federal disability retirement application, a separate page from the approval letter […]
Often, pragmatic judgments and decisions must be considered at different stages of a disability retirement application. For instance, whether to […]
Postal employees, there is nothing inherently wrong with an Agency offering you modified or light duty assignments. If your Agency […]
FERS and CSRS disability retirement applicants are especially “vulnerable” because of the inherently precarious financial situation that an applicant often […]
There are two elements: competency/knowledge, on the one hand, and authority/power on the other. When the two come together, we […]
While the issue of ‘causality’ is not one which often comes up in OPM disability retirement cases (by obvious contrast, […]