Woodward v. McCall

—Kane, J.

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 re*979spondent which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a confidential criminal investigator for the Rock-land County District Attorney’s office, allegedly sustained neck and back injuries after he fell from a stepladder while attempting to retrieve a case file from the basement archives of the county office building. He subsequently filed an application for accidental disability…