ALBANY - Members of the state Court of Appeals questioned how they or other non-medical experts could gauge with accuracy whether serious health conditions among first responders to the World Trade Center on 9/11 were actually caused by toxic materials released during the terror attacks.
The court heard arguments yesterday in the cases of two former police officers and the wife of a dead officer who were all initially denied Accident Disability Retirement (ADR) benefits by the trustees of the New York Police Department’s pension fund.
