A New York appellate court upheld a denial of disability retirement benefits to a corrections officer for her injuries from a fall in a stairwell of a training facility.
Case: Matter of Thompson v. DiNapoli, No. 525370, 05/17/2018, published.
Facts and procedural history: Rhonda Thompson worked as a corrections officer. She applied for disability retirement benefits after she injured herself in a fall while descending a flight of stairs at a training facility in 2013.
The retirement board denied her application based on its determination that Thompson did not have 10 years of total service ...
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