Bracero v. McCall

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 ordinary disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a secretary for the Port Authority of the State of New York and New Jersey, developed bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and subsequently underwent surgery therefor. Claiming that the surgery was unsuccessful, petitioner there*756after filed applications for ordinary disability retirement benefits pursuant to Retirement and Social…