Case Name: In the Matter of Rita Becker, Appellant, v. Benjamin Ward, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York and as Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, Article II, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1991-01-10
Citations: 169 A.D.2d 453
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Rita Becker, Appellant, v Benjamin Ward, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York and as Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, Article II, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 169
Pages: 453–453

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Rita Becker, Appellant, v Benjamin Ward, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York and as Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Police Pension Fund, Article II, et al., Respondents.

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Stanley Sklar, J.), entered on or about August 30, 1989, which dismissed petitioner's application for an accident disability pension, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner, a police officer, injured her ankle in a routine class exercise when she landed off balance. In denying petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits, it was within respondent's purview to find that petitioner's injury was not the result of an unexpected event and was thus not an "accident" within the meaning of the statute. (Matter of Lichtenstein v Board of Trustees, 57 NY2d 1010.) Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Milonas, Rosenberger, Wallach and Smith, JJ.