Case Name: In the Matter of Thomas McNamara, Appellant, v. Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2006-09-21
Citations: 32 A.D.3d 747
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Thomas McNamara, Appellant, v Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 32
Pages: 747–747

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Thomas McNamara, Appellant, v Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
[820 NYS2d 797]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Paviola A. Soto, J.), entered January 10, 2005, which denied the petition to annul respondents' determination denying petitioner's application for accident disability retirement benefits pursuant to General Municipal Law § 207-k (the Heart Bill), and dismissed the proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Objective medical evidence supports the Medical Board's finding that petitioner's cardiomyopathy is due to a mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction unrelated to his nonobstructive coronary artery disease or recently diagnosed and well-controlled hypertension, and suffices to rebut the statutory presumption that the cardiomyopathy is job related (see Matter of Seldon v Kelly, 21 AD3d 840 [2005]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Marlow, Nardelli, Gonzalez and McGuire, JJ.