Field 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 State Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for ordinary disability retirement. Petitioner was employed as a senior recreation therapist at Queens Children’s Psychiatric Center at the time he filed an application for ordinary disability retirement benefits in March of 1978. Petitioner’s application indicated that he was unable to perform his duties as a result of a knee injury sustained in 1976. Following a…