Mead 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. Petitioner, a clerk employed by Westchester County, testified that her duties included filing, answering the phone, Xerox copying, and processing and distributing the mail. Filing, petitioner explained, consisted of “doing my filing every day, putting it away into the file cabinets.” On May 7, 1976, petitioner was…