Petitioner, a police officer, injured her ankle in a routine class exercise when she landed off balance. In denying petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits, it was within respondent's purview to find that petitioner's injury was not the result of an unexpected event and was thus not an "accident" within the meaning of the statute. (Matter of Lichtenstein v Board of Trustees,
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MATTER OF BECKER v. WARD
169 A.D.2d 453 (1991)
In the Matter of Rita Becker, Appellant, v. Benjamin Ward, as Police Commissioner of The City of New York and As Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, Article II, et al., Respondents
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January 10, 1991
January 10, 1991
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.
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