Legal Opinion
Meyer v. Board of Trustees
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 8, 1997PublishedCited by 177 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
These appeals involve a recurring question concerning the standard of judicial review when the Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund denies, by tie vote, a firefighter’s application for service-related accidental disability retirement and grants only the lesser ordinary disability retirement benefits. In each case, the pension fund Medical Board found the firefighter incapacitated for the performance of duty (Administrative Code of City of NY § 13-352), but further concluded that the service-related injuries had not caused each…
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