Wilford Freestone Missouri Cases

Wilford Freestone appealed the trial court's judgment affirming the Board of Police Commissioners' decision to deny him duty-related disability retirement, instead granting non-duty disability retirement. Freestone, a former police officer diagnosed with PTSD and depression, argued the trial court misapplied the law in interpreting Section 86.1180.1. The appellate court reversed and remanded, holding that the statute requires only an occupational disease to arise exclusively from employment, not that the inability to perform duties be exclusively caused by the disease, and found the trial court misapplied the law.