Meegan v. New York State Retirement System

—Mercure, J. P.

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 applications for accidental and ordinary disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, an employee of the State Division of Equalization and Assessment and a tier I member of the New York State and Local Employees’ Retirement System, injured his back and knee during a fall he sustained at work in 1989. In 1994 and 1995, he made applications for accidental and ordinary disability…