The following excerpt is from Great Northern Ins. Co. v. Mount Vernon Fire Ins. Co., 677 N.Y.S.2d 61, 92 N.Y.2d 833 (N.Y. 1998):
applied this same definition to two more injuries in Matter of McCambridge v. McGuire, 62 N.Y.2d 563, 479 N.Y.S.2d 171, 468 N.E.2d 9. Although recognizing that "[n]ot every line of duty injury will result in an award of accident disability," we concluded that the petitioners in that case--one slipping on wet pavement as he was entering a patrol vehicle on a rainy day, the other losing his balance and falling while getting up from a desk--had both suffered accidental injuries as a matter of law. Crucial to our holding was that in each case "there was a precipitating accidental event * * * which was not a risk of the work performed" (id., at 567-568, 479 N.Y.S.2d 171, 468 N.E.2d 9).
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