Knox v. New York State Policemen's & Firemen's Retirement System

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.

Respondent Comptroller denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits with respondent New York State Policemen’s and Firemen’s Retirement System upon the ground that petitioner’s September 25, 1985 accident was not the natural and proximate cause of his disability. Petitioner’s only argument in this CPLR…