MATTER OF WHOLIHAN v. VANESSEN


254 A.D.2d 492 (1998)

679 N.Y.S.2d 627

In the Matter of John V. Wholihan, Appellant, v. Thomas Vanessen, as Fire Commissioner of The City of New York and as Chairman of The Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

October 26, 1998


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

In view of the objective medical evidence demonstrating that the petitioner's mild cardiomyopathy was not accompanied by any underlying stress-related heart disease or coronary artery disease, and the conclusions of various medical experts that the petitioner's disabling condition was of unknown origin or might possibly have been caused by a viral infection, the statutory presumption set forth in General Municipal...

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