Friedman v. City of New York Teachers' Retirement Board Teachers' Retirement System

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Ronald A. Zweibel, J), entered August 29, 2003, which denied the petition to annul a determination of respondent *64Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) concerning distribution and payment of pension and death benefits to respondent Virginia McLaughlin, and dismissed this proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

TRS’s determination to pay the subject death benefits to decedent’s sister, pursuant to the only designation of beneficiary filed by decedent, was neither affected by an error of law nor arbitrary and capricious. Indeed,…