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Matter of Kenneth C. Vidal v Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund :: August, 2006 :: New York Appellate Division, Second Department Decisions :: New York Case Law :: US Case Law :: US Law :: Justia
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Matter of Kenneth C. Vidal v Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund
Matter of Vidal v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Fire Dept., Art. 1-B Pension Fund
2006 NY Slip Op 06084 [32 AD3d 399]
In the Matter of Kenneth C. Vidal, Appellant,vBoard of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund, et al., Respondents.
In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund, dated September 13, 2004, denying the petitioner's application for accident disability retirement benefits pursuant to the Administrative Code of the City of New York § 13-353, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Douglass, J.), dated February 10, 2005, which denied the petition and, in effect, dismissed the proceeding.
The issue of whether a firefighter is disabled is determined by the Medical Board of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund (hereinafter the Medical Board). "The determination of the Medical Board is conclusive if it is supported by some credible evidence and is not irrational" (Matter of Rodriguez v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Fire Dept., Art. 1-B Pension Fund, 3 AD3d 501 [2004]; see Matter of Hession v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Fire Dept., Art. 1-B Pension Fund, 23 AD3d 468 [2005]; Matter of Kuczinski v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Fire Dept., Art. 1-B Pension Fund, 8 AD3d 283, 284 [2004]). Credible evidence is "evidence that proceeds from a credible source and reasonably tends to support the proposition for which it is offered" (Matter of [*2]Meyer v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Fire Dept., Art. 1-B Pension Fund, 90 NY2d 139, 147 [1997]). In this case, the determination of the Medical Board that the petitioner's injuries did not constitute a disability that would preclude the petitioner from performing full duty as a firefighter is supported by credible evidence and is not irrational. Thus, the Board of Trustees of the New York City Fire Department, Article 1-B Pension Fund, properly upheld the Medical Board's recommendation (see Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 760-761 [1996]), and the Supreme Court properly denied the petition. Crane, J.P., Mastro, Skelos and Dillon, JJ., concur.	Justiaon