§ 162. Registration of participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations. In order for the claim of a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations to come within the application of this article, such participant must file a written and sworn statement with the board on a form promulgated […]
§ 163. Notice; participants in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations. The notice requirements for injury or death resulting from a qualifying condition for a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations shall be the same as set forth in section eighteen of this chapter, except that the notice […]
§ 164. Disablement of a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations treated as an accident. The date of disablement of a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations resulting from a qualifying condition that is causally related to such participant shall be treated as the happening of an […]
§ 165. Reopening of disallowed claims. The board, upon receiving a statement duly filed as required under section one hundred sixty-two of this article, from a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations for a qualifying condition that was disallowed as barred by section eighteen or section twenty-eight of this chapter or […]
§ 166. Liability of employer and insurance carrier. The employer in whose employment an employee participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations shall be liable for any claim for a qualifying condition that is causally related to such participation provided that such participation arose out of and in the course of such […]
§ 167. Claims of volunteers. For persons who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations as volunteers, the uninsured employers’ fund shall be deemed to be the employer for the purposes of administering and paying claims pursuant to this article. Benefits under this chapter shall be payable to such volunteers in the […]
§ 168. Additional period for filing certain claims. 1. A claim by a participant in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations whose disablement occurred between September eleventh, two thousand three, and September eleventh, two thousand eight, shall not be disallowed as barred by section eighteen or section twenty-eight of this chapter if […]
§ 169. Presumptive evidence. 1. The board shall accept the certifications of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Trade Center Health Program as presumptive evidence of causation of certified illnesses pursuant to 42 USC 300mm for claims filed for conditions of impairment of health or death pursuant to a qualifying condition. 2. Notwithstanding […]
