DEVOE v. CITY OF NEW YORK


259 A.D.2d 336 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 27

AGNES DEVOE, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided March 16, 1999.


While petitioner contends that, during her employment as a teacher's aide, she hurt her back lifting a student from a wheelchair, respondent Board of Trustees was entitled, in view of the conflicting medical opinions as to the cause and extent of petitioner's claimed line-of-duty disability, to rely upon the opinion of its independent medical consultants that petitioner's back condition was not disabling and was not, in any case, a precipitant of her subsequent disability...

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