Callaghan v Board of Trustees of N.Y. City Police Pension Fund, Art. II
2004 NY Slip Op 05162 [8 AD3d 117]
June 15, 2004
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2004


James Callaghan, Appellant,
v
Board of Trustees of the New York City Police Pension Fund, Article II, Respondent.

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Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Michael D. Stallman, J.), entered September 11, 2003, which denied the petition brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 to annul respondent's determination, dated March 12, 2003, denying petitioner's application for accident disability retirement benefits, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Inasmuch as there was credible evidence to support the Medical Board's findings that petitioner's depression, although disabling, was not the natural and proximate result of a line of duty injury, and that his orthopedic injuries did not disable him from performing his duties as a police officer, the consequent determination by respondent Board of Trustees denying petitioner accident disability retirement benefits may not be judicially disturbed (see Matter of Beckles v Kerik, 1 AD3d 215 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 507 [2004]; and see Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 760-761 [1996]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Ellerin, Marlow and Catterson, JJ.