Crew III, J.
In 1970, plaintiff Michael J. Della Rocco, Jr. (hereinafter plaintiff), a firefighter employed by defendant, suffered a disabling injury in the line of duty. At that point in time, General Municipal Law former § 207-a required a municipality to pay an injured firefighter his or her full salary and medical expenses until such time as the disability ceased. Under this version of the statute, such payments would continue so long as the firefighter did...
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