MATTER OF VAN ROTEN v. McCALL


276 A.D.2d 944 (2000)

714 N.Y.S.2d 569

In the Matter of DAWN M. VAN ROTEN, as Executor of CHARLES VAN ROTEN, Deceased, Petitioner, v. H. CARL McCALL, as New York State Comptroller, Respondent.

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

Decided October 26, 2000.


Graffeo, J.

In November 1991, petitioner's decedent, a police sergeant, allegedly sustained three transverse vertebrae fractures to his back after he slipped and fell down a flight of stairs while conducting an investigation. He subsequently filed an application for accidental disability retirement benefits which was denied on the grounds that the November 1991 incident did not constitute an accident within the meaning of Retirement and Social Security Law §...

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