Maida v. McCall

—Peters, J.

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 which denied petitioner’s applications for performance of duty and accidental disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a police officer for the Village of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, was injured on December 9, 1989 when a female inmate he was placing into a holding cell became *930combative causing him to strike his right elbow on a steel door jam. In February 1997, after 20 years of service, he retired from his…