Meyer 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 Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits. On March 8, 1978, petitioner, while on duty as a police officer, slipped on the ice outside the station house as he was about to get into his patrol car. He grabbed the top of the car door to break his fall and, in so doing, he injured his back. The Comptroller denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement…