Visconti v. Kelly

Petitioner sustained back injuries in a 1994 line-of-duty accident and a 1999 line-of-duty incident while removing a spare tire from a police vehicle, the latter of which was not an “accident” for pension purposes (see Matter of Menna v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 59 NY2d 696 [1983]).

The Board of Trustees’ determination in 2004 that the 1999 injury was the competent causal factor of petitioner’s disability was supported by some credible evidence, and its ruling was neither arbitrary nor capricious (see Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756,…