Sullivan v. Regan

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent which denied the application of petitioner’s deceased for disability retirement benefits.

Michael Sullivan (hereinafter decedent), while employed by the City of Yonkers as a Water Plant Operator, was involved in an automobile accident on April 24, 1987 in which he sustained contusions of the scalp, neck and musculoskeletal strains. Thereafter, on February 15, 1989, decedent filed an application for disability retirement benefits in…