Cannioto 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. The Comptroller denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits upon the ground that, inter alia, petitioner’s accident on April 20 or April 21, 1976 was not the natural and proximate cause of petitioner’s disability. In his sole argument in this proceeding, petitioner contends that the above…