Legal Opinion
Cravotta v. New York City Employees' Retirement System
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 9, 2011PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
The petitioner, a sanitation worker with the New York City Department of Sanitation, injured his knee when, due to a slippery substance from a dump site that formed on his shoe, he allegedly slipped on a step of a sanitation truck that he was exiting. The New York City Employees’ Retirement System (hereinafter NYCERS) denied the petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits because his injury was not caused by an “accident” within the meaning of Retirement and Social Security Law § 605-b. Thereafter, the petitioner commenced this proceeding, inter alia, to annul…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Lichtenstein v. Board of TrusteesNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- MATTER OF KENNY v. DiNAPOLINew York Court of Appeals · 2008
- Kehoe v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- Johnson v. New York State Employees' Retirement SystemAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
- Fragale v. Diane D'AlessandroAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2008
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