Cardno v. State

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Comptroller which, among other things, denied petitioner’s application for World Trade Center accidental disability retirement benefits.

In 1998, petitioner, a police officer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey assigned to John F. Kennedy International Airport (hereinafter JFK), was diagnosed with mild chronic proctitis—a condition that petitioner’s gastroenterologist, Joseph Tripodi, subsequently described as a limited or…