Shea v. DiNapoli

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 was a police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey who began treating for depression in January 2006. In 2007, he applied for accidental disability retirement benefits alleging a psychological disability related to the attacks at the World Trade Center (hereinafter WTC) and *1024injuries to his left wrist…