Tripi v. Ward

The Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, in adopting the unanimous recommendation of its Medical Board, determined that petitioner had not met his burden of establishing entitlement to either ordinary disability retirement or accidental disability retirement. Indeed, although conflicting medical evidence was submitted by the parties relating to, inter alia, petitioner’s back pain, a second CAT scan of petitioner’s lumbar spine revealed no disc herniation, and a recent June 10, 1988 electrodiagnostic study of his lower extremities, including corresponding lumbosacral para-*337spinal…