09/22/2026
September 2026 - The Supreme Court, Kings County, ruled that the New York City Employees’ Retirement System improperly denied a Performance of Duty Disability Retirement, ¾’s pension, to a NYC Department of Correction, Correction Officer; based upon a finding her disability for full duty was not caused by a violent inmate encounter, after which she never returned to true full ‘CO’ duty in the jails. NYCERS said the inmate event did not cause her to require emergency spinal surgery several years after the event and become disabled, despite the MRIs at that time showing the serious injuries she sustained and her being deemed a spinal fusion candidate but choosing to delay having major neck surgery as long as she could based upon her age, and only working in administrative positions after the event.