Cole-Hatchard v. McCall

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Ceresia, Jr., J.), entered March 25, 2002 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent denying petitioner’s application for accidental death benefits.

On March 15, 2000, petitioner’s husband (hereinafter decedent), a detective with the Town of Stony Point Police Department, was found unresponsive in his home and later pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of death was listed as coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction. Since, prior to his…