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INJURED POLICE OFFICER CAN RECEIVE BOTH WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AND GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW 207-c BENEFITS (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined a police officer injured trying to subdue and emotionally disturbed person can receive both Workers' Compensation and General Municipal Law 207-c benefits. The police chief denied the General Municipal Law 207-c benefits. Supreme Court annulled the police chief's denial holding that the police chief was estopped from denying the benefits because Workers' Compensation benefits had been awarded.  The Second Department found that the estoppel doctrine did not apply but affirmed on different grounds:

… [T]he Workers' Compensation Board's determination in favor of the petitioner did not collaterally estop the Incorporated Village of Muttontown and the Chief of Police (hereinafter together the appellants) from denying the petitioner's application for General Municipal Law § 207-c benefits. “[A] determination by the Workers' Compensation Board that an injury is work-related” does not, “by operation of collateral estoppel, automatically entitle an injured employee to General Municipal Law § 207-c benefits” … . “General Municipal Law 207-c benefits apply to a narrower class of work-related injury, relative to the performance of law enforcement duties” … .

A determination denying an application for benefits pursuant to General Municipal Law § 207-c may be annulled only if it was arbitrary and capricious … . “An action is arbitrary and capricious when it is taken without sound basis in reason or regard to the facts” … .

In order to establish entitlement to General Municipal Law § 207-c benefits, a municipal employee must prove a “direct causal relationship between job duties and the resulting illness or injury”… . Here, the appellants' denial of the petitioner's application for benefits under General Municipal Law § 207-c was arbitrary and capricious. The documentation in the record established a causal connection between the performance of the petitioner's duties and her injuries. Matter of Lavin v Incorporated Vil. of Muttontown, 2018 NY Slip Op 06909, Second Dept 10-17-18

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