Janelli 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 *967Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement. Petitioner, a Nassau County Police Officer since 1957, filed an application for accidental disability retirement with respondent Comptroller on July 14, 1980. In this application it is alleged that petitioner was disabled by cancer of the bladder caused by his use of the chemical benzidine over a period of several years. Specifically,…