Bourret 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 State Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits. Petitioner, a senior transportation survey supervisor in the State Department of Transportation, was voluntarily assisting *934a co-worker from a regional office in loading traffic survey material, being loaned to that office, onto a truck. In the course of the loading, a rectangular hinged sign frame slipped and, as…