A woman recently asked for disability retirement benefits based on symptoms caused by her office environment. She claimed that she had allergic rhinitis and an “allergic-like reaction of unknown etiology” triggered by her work in a courthouse.
Starting in 2002, the plaintiff in the case of McCormick v. California Public Employees Retirement System worked as an appraiser for Lake County. She was mostly based in the Lakeport courthouse. In 2010, she started experiencing pain and fatigue. By 2012, she could no longer finish a full day of work at the courthouse.
