Walsh v. Board of Trustees

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold B. Beeler, J.), entered February 15, 2006, which denied the petition to annul respondents’ determination denying petitioner’s application for accident disability retirement benefits pursuant to General Municipal Law § 207-k, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In view of the objective medical evidence demonstrating that petitioner’s dilated cardiomyopathy was not accompanied by underlying stress-related coronary artery disease or hypertension, and the conclusions of various doctors that petitioner’s disabling condition was of unknown origin,…