Carboni v. Teachers Retirement System

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J.), entered May 23, 1991, dismissing a CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to annul respondents’ denial of petitioner’s application for an accident disability retirement, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The trial court properly concluded that respondent Teachers Retirement System’s (TRS) finding that petitioner’s disability was not causally related to her October 1987 line-of-duty accident was rationally based.

TRS was entitled to accept the medical reports of its own experts instead of those of petitioner in evaluating the…