Soto v. Regan

— Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits. Petitioner, a maintenance plumber at the Sagamore Children’s Center of the Suffolk State School, filed an application for accidental disability retirement pursuant to section 63 of the Retirement and Social Security Law on May 14, 1976 because of injuries sustained to his lower back as the result of an accident involving a…