Court Opinion

ID: 9646482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:00:50.694227+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:38.493731
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that the award of the arbitrators should be reinstated because appellee, City of Jeannette, has not shown that the award is contrary to law. The City did not meet its burden of demonstrating that the award would require illegal contributions to maintain the police pension fund.
In concurring in the majority’s result, I note that today’s decision does not preclude a beneficiary from challenging the adequacy of the funding of a pension fund or any other aspect of the establishment or management of a fund which may undermine its ability to meet future obligations. Dombrowski v. City of Philadelphia, 431 Pa. 199, 209—10, 245 A.2d 238, 244 (1968). Thus, beneficiaries who may be prejudiced if the City’s pension fund becomes financially unsound have an adequate means of protecting their interests.
O’BRIEN and POMEROY, JJ., join in this concurring opinion.