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Oak Park firefighters union: Village's rules to evaluate 'catastrophic injury' benefit claims unconstitutional

By Jonathan Bilyk | Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018 @ 6:12pm

An attempt by the village of Oak Park to establish a new way to evaluate whether its firefighters claiming to have been "catastrophically injured" in the line of duty should receive retirement health insurance benefits, has drawn a legal challenge from the union representing its firefighters, who say the village’s ordinance establishing the new rules violates Illinois state law and the firefighter’s rights as public employees under the state constitution.