Heil v. New York State & Local 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 the Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner joined respondent New York State and Local Retirement System in 1983 and accepted an incentive for early retirement in 2010, with an effective date of retirement of May 31, 2010. In January 2012, he filed for disability retirement benefits, asserting that no one at his place of work or the Retirement System informed him about the possible…