IN RE: Kevin J. Kelly (2011)

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Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen B. Rakower, J.), entered November 6, 2009, which denied the petition seeking, inter alia, to annul respondents' determination denying petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits, and dismissed the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Credible medical evidence exists in the record rebutting the presumption that petitioner's disability was proximately caused by his work at the World Trade Center site (see Matter of Jefferson v. Kelly, 51 AD3d 536, 537 [2008];  Administrative Code of the City of New York § 13-252.1[1][a] ).   It was determined that petitioner's psychological disability, resulting in part from stress unrelated to his work at the World Trade Center, did not constitute an accidental injury within the meaning of Administrative Code § 13-252, and “[t]he Board of Trustees was entitled to rely upon the opinion of the Medical Board with respect to causation, notwithstanding conflicts in the medical testimony” (see Matter of Casiano v. Brown, 209 A.D.2d 182, 183 [1994], lv denied 85 N.Y.2d 804 [1995] ).

We have considered petitioner's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER

OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

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CLERK