Siskavich v. Regan

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent State Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement pursuant to section 63 of the Retirement and Social Security Law. Petitioner Felix Siskavich was working as a correction officer at the Clinton Correctional Facility when, on July 12, 1977, he allegedly injured his back while assisting two inmates of a work detail as they threw a large beam out of a window of a building that…