Ahrendt v. McGuire

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ascione, J.), entered March 17, 1980, denying petitioner’s application for an accident disability pension, unanimously reversed, on the law, and matter remanded for further proceedings consistent herewith, without costs. Petitioner Ahrendt, a police officer, was injured during a riot on July 16, 1977. He was taken that same day to Long Island College Hospital. The immediate diagnosis in the hospital record was “contusion of abdominal wall”. The petitioner was discharged from the hospital but he never returned to work. In a report dated December 5,…