Case Name: In the Matter of James V. Smith, Appellant, v. New York City Employees' Retirement System et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-05-18
Citations: 215 A.D.2d 256
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of James V. Smith, Appellant, v New York City Employees’ Retirement System et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 215
Pages: 256–256

Head Matter:
In the Matter of James V. Smith, Appellant, v New York City Employees’ Retirement System et al., Respondents.
[626 NYS2d 200]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), entered March 9, 1994, which denied petitioner's application pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul respondents' determination denying petitioner's application for an accidental disability pension, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Respondents' determination that the injury petitioner sustained to his shoulder and back when, in the course of his employment with the New York City Parks Department, he lifted a wheelbarrow into a dump truck, was not the result of an unexpected event, and thus not an "accident" within the meaning of Retirement and Social Security Law § 605 (b) (3), was not arbitrary and capricious (see, Matter of Lichtenstein v Board of Trustees, 57 NY2d 1010; Matter of Danyi v Board of Trustees, 176 AD2d 451). Concur—Ellerin, J. P., Wallach, Kupferman, Ross and Mazzarelli, JJ.