208 – Payment of Disability and Family Leave Benefits.
§ 208. Payment of disability and family leave benefits. 1. Benefits provided under this article shall be paid periodically and promptly and, except as to a contested period of disability or family leave, without any decision by the board, or designee of the chair pursuant to section two hundred twenty-one of this article. The first […]
166 – Liability of Employer and Insurance Carrier.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 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.
§ 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 […]
200 – Short Title.
§ 200. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the “disability benefits law and the paid family leave benefits law.”
201 – Definitions.
§ 201. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. “Board” means the workers’ compensation board created under this chapter. 2. “Chairman” means the chairman of the workers’ compensation board of the state of New York. 3. “State fund” means the state insurance fund created under article six of this chapter. 4. “Employer,” except when otherwise […]
202 – Covered Employer.
§ 202. Covered employer. 1. An employer who has in employment, after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, one or more employees on each of at least thirty days in any calendar year, shall be a covered employer subject to the provisions of this article from and after January first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, or the expiration […]
163 – Notice; Participants in the World Trade Center Rescue, Recovery and Clean-Up Operations.
§ 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.
§ 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 […]