Legal Opinion
Martin v. Murray
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 17, 2012Published
1Opinion of the CourtKavanagh, J.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits.
Petitioner, a charge nurse for the Westchester Medical Center, was injured in November 2008 when, at the request of a nursing home resident, she stepped behind a chair to change the station on a radio and tripped and fell when the cord from a window blind became wrapped around her ankle. As a result of the fall, petitioner sustained injuries to…
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