Bell v. New York City Employees' Retirement System

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William McCooe, J.), entered April 27, 1999, which denied petitioner’s application to annul respondents’ denial of his application for a disability pension, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

*120The Medical Board’s finding that petitioner is not disabled was rationally based on its own examination of petitioner. The circumstance that the Medical Board chose to rely on such examination, rather than the conflicting reports of petitioner’s physicians, is not an indication of arbitrariness (see, Matter of Borenstein v New York…