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PETITIONER POLICE OFFICER’S SLIP AND FALL WHEN LEAVING A BATHROOM MET THE DEFINITION OF AN “ACCIDENT” IN THE RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW; SHE WAS THEREFORE ENTITLED TO ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, annulling the comptroller’s ruling, determined the police officer’s slip and fall was an accident within the meaning of the Retirement and Social Security Law entitling her to accidental disability retirement benefits:

Petitioner’s slip and fall while exiting the bathroom was sudden and unexpected, and the precipitating event was not a risk of the work performed by her, i.e., was not the result of activity undertaken in the performance of her ordinary employment as a police officer … . Petitioner was not required to demonstrate that the slippery substance was not readily observable … . The Retirement System conceded at the hearing that the 2012 accident rendered petitioner permanently incapacitated and on appeal respondent — in conceding that petitioner was entitled to performance of duty disability retirement based upon the 2012 incident — necessarily conceded causation, i.e. that the 2012 fall caused her permanent incapacitation. Matter of Bucci v DiNapoli, 2022 NY Slip Op 06968, Third Dept 12-8-22

Practice Point: Petitioner police officer slipped and fell when leaving a bathroom. That was an “accident” within the meaning of the Retirement and Social Security Law entitling her to accidental disability retirement benefits.

 

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