Legal Opinion
Echols v. Regan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 24, 1990PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Weiss, J. P.
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, a staff dentist at Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Suffolk County, was injured while extracting a tooth from a patient who had been referred from his ward for treatment. At a critical point in an otherwise uneventful extraction of three abscessed teeth, the patient suddenly and unexpectedly jerked and twisted his…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Arthur A. Johnson Corp. v. Indemnity InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1958
- MATTER OF PRATT v. ReganNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
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3Cited by5 opinions
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