§ 110. Record and report of injuries by employers. 1. An employer, or a third party designated by the employer, shall record any injury or illness incurred by one of its employees in the course of employment using the form prescribed by the chair for reporting injuries under subdivision two of this section. Such form, […]
§ 110-a. Confidentiality of workers’ compensation records. 1. Restrictions on disclosure. (a) Except upon the order or subpoena of a court of competent jurisdiction, or subpoena of a law enforcement agency, or subpoena properly issued under the authority of an administrative agency, or in accordance with subdivision two or three of this section, no workers’ […]
§ 110-b. Reporting of injuries to employer. Every farm labor contractor, foreman or supervisor of farm laborers who has notice of any injury to a farm laborer incurred during the course of employment shall be required to inform the employer, owner or operator of a farm of any such injury.
§ 111. Information to be furnished by employer. Every employer shall furnish the chairman, upon request, any information required by him to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The chairman or board may examine under oath any employer, officer, agent or employee. An employer or an employee receiving from the chairman a blank with […]
§ 112. Inspection of records of employers. All books, records and payrolls of the employers, showing or reflecting in any way upon the amount of wage expenditures of such employers shall always be open for inspection by the chairman for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of the wage expenditure and number of men employed […]
§ 113. Interstate commerce. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to employers and employees engaged in intrastate, and also interstate or foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be established by the congress of the United States, only to the extent that their mutual connection […]
§ 114. Penalties for fraudulent practices. 1. Any person who, knowingly and with intent to defraud presents, causes to be presented, or prepares with knowledge or belief that it will be presented to or by an insurer or purported insurer, or any agent thereof, any written statement as part of, or in support of, an […]
§ 114-a. Disqualification for false representation. 1. If for the purpose of obtaining compensation pursuant to section fifteen of this chapter, or for the purpose of influencing any determination regarding any such payment, a claimant knowingly makes a false statement or representation as to a material fact, such person shall be disqualified from receiving any […]
§ 114-b. Readjustment of an employer’s experience rating. If pursuant to section one hundred fourteen-a of this chapter, benefits or payments are suspended or otherwise prohibited, and so long as the employer has not been found to be in violation of section one hundred fourteen of this chapter, such employer’s experience rating, or where the […]
§ 114-c. Multiple offenses. Any provision of this chapter which imposes additional penalties for a second or subsequent offense shall apply whenever the prior offense was committed by a substantially owned affiliated entity of the party subject to penalty.
§ 115. Limitation of time. No limitation of time provided in this chapter shall run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor so long as he has no committee or guardian.
§ 116. Sessions. The offices of the chairman and the board shall be open for business during all business hours of all days except Sundays and legal holidays. All sessions of the board shall be public. The records of the board shall contain a record of each case considered, and all awards, decisions or orders […]
§ 117. Rules. 1. The board may adopt reasonable rules consistent with and supplemental to the provisions of this chapter and the labor law. The chairman may make reasonable regulations consistent with the provisions of this chapter and the labor law. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board shall, at least forty-five […]
§ 118. Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The chairman or board in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such investigation […]
§ 118-a. Effect of findings and determinations in subsequent proceedings. With respect to an action for a workers’ compensation claim permissible under this chapter, no finding or decision by the workers’ compensation board, judge or other arbiter shall be given collateral estoppel effect in any other action or proceeding arising out of the same occurrence, […]
§ 119. Subpoenas. A subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may be signed and issued by the chairman, a member of the board, referee or such other officer as may be designated by the chairman. A subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may also be signed and issued by any attorney and counsellor-at-law appearing before […]
§ 120. Discrimination against employees. It shall be unlawful for any employer or his or her duly authorized agent to discharge or fail to reinstate pursuant to section two hundred three-b of this chapter, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee as to his or her employment because such employee has claimed or […]
§ 121. Depositions. The chairman or board may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in the supreme court.
§ 121-a. Proof of dependency in foreign countries. In cases involving the dependency of noncitizens residing in foreign countries, transcripts of birth or marriage certificates, also documents and affidavits, certified by a local official or local magistrate and authenticated as to such official or magistrate by the secretary of state or other official having charge […]
§ 122. Transcripts. A copy of the testimony, evidence and procedure of any investigation, or a particular part thereof, transcribed by a stenographer in the employ of the board and certified by such stenographer to be true and correct may be received in evidence with the same effect as if such stenographer were present and […]
