Case Name: In the Matter of Augusta Bell, Appellant, v. New York City Employees' Retirement System et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-06-20
Citations: 273 A.D.2d 119
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Augusta Bell, Appellant, v New York City Employees’ Retirement System et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 273
Pages: 119–120

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Augusta Bell, Appellant, v New York City Employees’ Retirement System et al., Respondents.
[710 NYS2d 888]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (William McCooe, J.), entered April 27, 1999, which denied petitioner's application to annul respondents' denial of his application for a disability pension, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The Medical Board's finding that petitioner is not disabled was rationally based on its own examination of petitioner. The circumstance that the Medical Board chose to rely on such examination, rather than the conflicting reports of petitioner's physicians, is not an indication of arbitrariness (see, Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 761; Matter of Salem v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 237 AD2d 120, lv denied 90 NY2d 802). We have considered petitioner's other arguments and find them unavailing. Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Ellerin, Lerner, Buckley and Friedman, JJ.