Coulter 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 Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits. H On July 29, 1980, petitioner, a tractor trailer operator employed by the Office of General Services, slipped and fell eight feet while attempting to secure the load on the dump truck he was operating. As a result of the fall, he sustained a lacerated scalp, a fractured left hand and a cervical strain necessitating five days of…