Torvik v. Police & Firemen's Retirement & Relief Board

Petitioner, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department since 1961, was injured while on duty in 1977, when his scooter collided with a motor vehicle. He was taken to a hospital and there it was ascertained that he had sustained, in addition to numerous contusions, a ruptured spleen and a fracture of the greater trochanter of the right femur. The spleen was removed by surgery and the fractured femur was treated without surgery or a cast.

Sometime after his release from the hospital, petitioner experienced difficulty with movement of his left forearm. X-rays revealed a previously…