Stevens v. Regan

pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Comptroller, which disapproved petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement. Petitioner was a corrections officer who received a beating at the hands of inmates at the Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on April 1, 1976. While conceding that petitioner sustained an accident and that he is now incapacitated for the performance of his duties, the Comptroller disapproved petitioner’s application for accidental disability…