Keppel v. DiNapoli

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 applications for disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a medical service specialist for the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, worked in that capacity from August 1995 until March 2005, when she was advised by her treating physician to discontinue working. Following a heart procedure and an operation on her neck, petitioner applied for disability retirement benefits in March 2006…