OPM FERS/CSRS Disability Retirement: The Law & Life’s Pragmatic Reality

In a Federal Disability Retirement case, one of the ways to establish the nexus between one’s medical condition and the inability to perform one or more of the essential elements of one’s job, is to show a “service deficiency”. But as most Federal and Postal employees […] Read More …

Medical Retirement for Federal Workers: Correlation, Correspondence & Causation

How we assert and connect disparate facts reveals the extent of one’s understanding of the conceptual distinctions to be made between correlation, correspondence and causation. Correlation, in its normative usage, refers to the relationship […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement for Federal and Postal Employees: Administrative v. Adversarial

That is often the line of argument: Since it is an “administrative process”, it is not adversarial. This presumes quite a bit — such as, the term “adversarial” is constrained to applying […] Read More …