Case Name: In the Matter of Joanne M. Toole, Appellant, v. Board of Trustees of the New York City Police Pension Fund, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-06-05
Citations: 306 A.D.2d 55
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Joanne M. Toole, Appellant, v Board of Trustees of the New York City Police Pension Fund, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 306
Pages: 55–55

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Joanne M. Toole, Appellant, v Board of Trustees of the New York City Police Pension Fund, Respondent.
[759 NYS2d 677]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward Lehner, J.), entered January 8, 2003, which denied petitioner's application to annul respondent's denial of petitioner's application for an accident disability pension and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The Medical Board's determination that petitioner is not disabled is supported by some credible evidence, including its own physical examination of petitioner on three separate occasions all resulting in largely negative objective findings (see Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 760-761 [1996]). The Medical Board was entitled to rely on such findings rather than the conflicting findings of petitioner's physicians (see id. at 761). We have considered petitioner's other arguments, including that the Medical Board did not adequately explain why it resolved the conflict in the medical evidence in the way it did, and find them unavailing. Concur — Tom, J.P., Sullivan, Rosenberger, Wallach and Gonzalez, JJ.
Deceased June 1, 2003.