Hughes v Kelly

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Hughes v Kelly 2012 NY Slip Op 02393 Decided on March 29, 2012 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on March 29, 2012
Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Moskowitz, Acosta, Abdus-Salaam, JJ.
7221 113654/10

[*1]In re Jeffrey Hughes, Petitioner-Appellant,

v

Raymond Kelly, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, etc., et al., Respondents-Respondents.




Bartlett, McDonough & Monaghan, LLP, White Plains (Ryan
K. Allen of counsel), for appellant.
Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Keith M.
Snow of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan B. Lobis, J.), entered March 18, 2011, denying the petition seeking, inter alia, to annul the determination of respondents, dated June 14, 2010, which denied petitioner accidental disability retirement benefits and ordinary disability retirement benefits, and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There was a rational basis for respondents' determination (see generally Matter of Borenstein v New York City Employees' Retirement Sys., 88 NY2d 756, 760 [1996]). The record shows that after reviewing the medical evidence submitted by petitioner and the findings from its physical examinations of petitioner, the Medical Board concluded that there was no objective evidence of a disability. The Board found that the deficits in petitioner's range of motion were attributable to voluntary guarding and there were no objective radiographic studies presented showing abnormal findings. Moreover, contrary to petitioner's contention, the Medical Board did consider evidence from petitioner's doctors in 2009, and provided a rational explanation for its medical judgment. It is well established that the court may not substitute its judgment for that of the Medical Board (see Matter of Appleby v Herkommer, 165 AD2d 727, 728 [1990]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: MARCH 29, 2012

CLERK

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