LAWSON v. KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS

No. 2007-SC-000540-DG.

291 S.W.3d 679 (2009)

Bob LAWSON, Appellant, v. KENTUCKY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS; Board of Trustees of Kentucky Retirement Systems; and Kentucky State Treasurer, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 1, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hardin Gray, Martha Church Gray, Frankfort, KY, for Appellant.

Jennifer A. Jones, Kentucky Retirement Systems, Frankfort, KY, for Appellees, Kentucky Retirement Systems; and Board of Trustees of Kentucky Retirement Systems.

James Michael Herrick, Assistant Attorney General, Civil and Environmental Law Division, Frankfort, KY, for Appellee, Kentucky State Treasurer.


Opinion of the Court by Justice NOBLE.

Appellant Bob Lawson challenges a denial of his request to change his retirement benefits payment option. The deadline for such a change is controlled by KRS 61.590, which limits changes to the time before "the first retirement allowance payment has been issued by the State Treasurer." Appellant raises three issues on appeal regarding this statute: that employees of the Kentucky Employees Retirement Systems (KERS) misled him...

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