Hearne v. Comptroller of State

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 respondent Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a former Town of Clarkstown police lieutenant in Rockland County, filed an application for accidental disability retirement benefits with respondent New York State Policemen’s and Firemen’s Retirement System, alleging that he *757was psychiatrically disabled because of an incident or incidents that occurred in the course of his…