MATTER OF BURNS v. SAFIR


305 A.D.2d 142 (2003)

757 N.Y.S.2d 846

In the Matter of DAVID BURNS, Appellant, v. HOWARD SAFIR et al., Respondents.

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

Decided May 6, 2003.


The determination of respondent Board of Trustees that, contrary to the presumption mandated by General Municipal Law § 207-k, petitioner's arrhythmia was not service related, but was instead attributable to a congenital heart condition, and its treatment by means of aortic valve surgery was sufficiently based on credible evidence, namely, the expert opinion of respondent Medical Board based upon its examinations of petitioner and its review of his medical records (...

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