Legal Opinion
Marley v. Board of Trustees
New York Supreme Court
Decided April 24, 2007Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Jack M. Battaglia, J.
Petitioners Lawrence J. Harley and Gerard Ledwith, retired firefighters who participated in rescue and recovery at Ground Zero, challenge denial of their respective applications for accident disability retirement/line-of-duty retirement benefits. Because the court can find no articulated explanation for the determinations that petitioners were not disabled at the time of their retirement, those determinations are annulled, and the matters remanded to the Board of Trustees of the 1-B Pension Fund.
Petitioner Ledwith made application for accident…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Borenstein v. New York City Employees' Retirement SystemNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
- Meyer v. Board of TrusteesNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
- McGrail v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1944
- Matter of City of New York v. SchoeckNew York Court of Appeals · 1945
- Rodriguez v. Board of Trustees of New York City Fire DepartmentAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
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