Dembinski v. Regan

—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 application for accidental disability retirement benefits.

Upon review of the record, we conclude that there is substantial evidence to support respondent’s determination that petitioner, an embalmer for Cornell University, did not sustain his burden of proving that his permanent disability of hypersensitivity to formaldehyde was the natural and proximate result of his workplace exposure to a large spill of…