Court: Police Surgeon Wrongly Denied ‘Heart Bill’ Disability Pension

See our case featured in the July 30, 2012, issue of The Chief Leader concerning our recent pension win on behalf of NYPD Captains Endowment Association ("CEA") President, Roy Richter and retired New York City Police Surgeon Lea Dann, M.D. Justice Geoffrey D. Wright overturned a determination by the Police Pension Fund’s trustees that a Police Surgeon was not eligible for a three-quarters disability pension under the Heart Bill because Surgeons were not under the same stress as other Police Pension Fund members. Read the full text or see the official article.  See also the Article regarding this case in the August 2012, edition of the Bulletin, the official publication of the NYPD Captains Endowment Association: Page 11.