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Corrections Officer Not Entitled to Performance of Duty Disability Benefits Based Upon Injury Stemming from Aiding an Inmate Who Was Having a Seizure

The Third Department determined a corrections officer was not entitled to “performance of duty” disability benefits based upon injury aiding an inmate who had a seizure. The court found that the “performance of duty” disability provision pertained only to injury caused by a violent inmate:

Retirement and Social Security Law § 507-b (a) provides for performance of duty disability retirement benefits to correction officers employed by the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision who are unable to perform their job duties “as the natural and proximate result of an injury, sustained in the performance or discharge of [their] duties by, or as a natural and proximate result of, an act of an inmate.” The statute does not specifically define an “act of an inmate.” The legislative history, however, reveals that “the statute was clearly intended to compensate correction officers who, because of the risks created by their ‘daily contact with certain persons who are dangerous [and] profoundly antisocial’ . . . become permanently disabled” … . In accordance with this intent, courts have construed the language to require that the injuries be caused by direct interaction with an inmate in order to qualify for benefits under the statute … .

Petitioner contends that she had direct interaction with the inmate while she was lowering him to the floor during his seizure. However, in analogous circumstances where a correction officer was injured while assisting an incapacitated inmate during a medical emergency, we held that the “inmate was not engaged in any act that was a proximate cause of petitioner’s. . . injury” (Matter of Esposito v Hevesi, 30 AD3d 667, 668 [2006]). Given the absence of any affirmative act on the part of the inmate here, we perceive no meaningful distinction to be drawn between this case and Matter of Esposito v Hevesi (supra) … . Matter of Laurino v DiNapoli, 2015 NY Slip Op 07327, 3rd Dept 10-8-15

 

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