Case Name: In the Matter of John Zaborowski, Appellant, v. Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2012-03-06
Citations: 93 A.D.3d 436
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of John Zaborowski, Appellant, v Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 93
Pages: 436–436

Head Matter:
In the Matter of John Zaborowski, Appellant, v Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, et al., Respondents.
[938 NYS2d 895]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered May 17, 2010, denying the petition to annul respondents' denial of accidental disability retirement benefits, and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The determination was not arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion or contrary to law. Credible evidence, including petitioner's medical records, supports the Medical Board's finding that petitioner's ventricular tachycardia was not caused by hypertension or any other stress-related condition, and rebuts the statutory presumption that petitioner's disabling heart condition is job-related (see General Municipal Law § 207-k; see Matter of McNamara v Kelly, 32 AD3d 747 [2006], lv denied 8 NY3d 810 [2007]). The Board of Trustees was entitled to rely on the Medical Board's findings (see Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 760 [1996]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Acosta, Freedman and Abdus-Salaam, JJ.