A New York appellate court has upheld the denial of accidental disability retirement benefits to a Middletown fire inspector who claimed he was permanently disabled after a 2010 vehicle crash.
The court agreed that Adam McCarey failed to establish that the crash occurred while he was doing his ordinary duties as a fire inspector/firefighter.
McCarey was injured on Sept. 23, 2010, as he was driving his city-issued vehicle from one inspection site to another. He had stopped behind a school bus with its lights on when he was rear-ended by a truck.
The accident happened about an hour befor...
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