Graffeo, J.
In November 1991, petitioner's decedent, a police sergeant, allegedly sustained three transverse vertebrae fractures to his back after he slipped and fell down a flight of stairs while conducting an investigation. He subsequently filed an application for accidental disability retirement benefits which was denied on the grounds that the November 1991 incident did not constitute an accident within the meaning of Retirement and Social Security Law §...
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