| Matter of Kelly v Kelly |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 01932 [82 AD3d 544] |
| March 17, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| In the Matter of Kevin J. Kelly, Appellant, v RaymondKelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York and as Chairman of the Board ofTrustees of the Police Pension Fund, Article II, et al., Respondents. |
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Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen A. Rakower, J.), entered November 6,2009, which denied the petition seeking, inter alia, to annul respondents' determination denyingpetitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits, and dismissed the proceedingbrought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Credible medical evidence exists in the record rebutting the presumption that petitioner'sdisability was proximately caused by his work at the World Trade Center site (see Matter of Jefferson v Kelly, 51AD3d 536, 537 [2008]; Administrative Code of City of NY § 13-252.1 [1] [a]). It wasdetermined that petitioner's psychological disability, resulting in part from stress unrelated to hiswork at the World Trade Center, did not constitute an accidental injury within the meaning ofAdministrative Code § 13-252, and "[t]he Board of Trustees was entitled to rely upon theopinion of the Medical Board with respect to causation, notwithstanding conflicts in the medicaltestimony" (see Matter of Casiano v Brown, 209 AD2d 182, 183 [1994], lv denied85 NY2d 804 [1995]).
We have considered petitioner's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.Concur—Gonzalez, P.J., Tom, Acosta and Richter, JJ.