MATTER OF WALKER

File No. 823/09. 2015-06120.

156 A.D.3d 799 (2017)

67 N.Y.S.3d 254

2017 NY Slip Op 08834

In the Matter of BERNADETTE AGNES WALKER, Also Known as BERNADETTE A. WALKER, Deceased. DENNIS PHILLIP WALKER III, Appellant; LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, Respondent.

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

Decided December 20, 2017.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The decedent, Bernadette Agnes Walker, was employed by the respondent, Long Island University (hereinafter LIU), from 1977 until her death in 2009. At the time of her death, she was the Dean of Students at LIU's Brooklyn campus. Since 1946, LIU has offered a death benefit to be paid when an LIU administrator dies while actively employed by LIU. The death benefit, which was initiated by LIU as a showing of "goodwill,...

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