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Ex-EMT to Finally Receive Disability Pension as City Drops Long Appeal

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 2/26/18

The de Blasio administration has dropped its appeal of a 2017 state-court ruling in favor of a former FDNY Emergency Medical Technician, clearing the way for him to finally get the 9/11 World Trade Center disability award that the New York City Employees' Retirement System had denied him for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Last February, Brooklyn State Supreme Court Justice Lisa S. Ottley ruled for Michael Markowski, 46, who was one of the first city employees to respond to the Twin Towers after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

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