New York Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law Article 2 - COVERAGE AND BENEFITS

• 5 - Coverage.
  1. The duties and activities in relation to which benefits shall be paid and provided pursuant to this chapter are: a. Necessary travel to, working...
• 6 - Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefits; General.
  If a volunteer ambulance worker dies from the effects of injury in the line of duty, or if such an ambulance worker shall be injured...
• 7 - Death Benefits.
  In the event of death the benefit shall be known as a death benefit and shall be paid as follows: 1. The reasonable funeral expenses...
• 7-a - Date of Death Benefits.
  All weekly benefits payable under section seven of this article shall accrue as of the date of death of the volunteer ambulance worker. In the...
• 8 - Permanent Total Disability Benefits.
  In the case of total disability adjudged to be permanent the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid six hundred dollars for each week during the...
• 9 - Temporary Total Disability Benefits.
  In the case of temporary total disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid three hundred dollars for each week during the continuance thereof; provided,...
• 10 - Permanent Partial Disability Benefits.
  1. In the case of disability partial in character, but permanent in quality, the volunteer ambulance worker, injured in the line of duty shall be...
• 11 - Temporary Partial Disability Benefits.
  In the case of temporary partial disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid for each week during the continuance thereof, as follows: 1. If...
• 11-a - Repair or Replacement of Prosthetic Devices.
  If, as a result of services performed in line of duty, a volunteer ambulance worker damages or loses any prosthetic devices required to be worn...
• 11-b - Hazardous Exposures.
  If, as a result of services performed in line of duty, a volunteer ambulance worker is exposed to or comes in contact with any poisons,...
• 11-c - Medical Examination of Volunteer Ambulance Workers to Detect and Identify the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Hiv).
  1. Whenever a volunteer ambulance worker has been exposed to a significant risk of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while performing services in...
• 12 - Nonschedule Adjustments.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, in any case coming within the provisions of sections ten and eleven of this article, in which the...
• 13 - Reclassification of Disabilities.
  Subject to the limitations in section fifty-one of this chapter and in section one hundred twenty-three of the workers' compensation law as made applicable to...
• 14 - Previous Disability.
  The fact that a volunteer ambulance worker has suffered previous disability or received benefits therefor as provided in the workers' compensation law, or this chapter...
• 15 - Expense for Rehabilitating Injured Volunteer Ambulance Workers.
  A volunteer ambulance worker, who as a result of injury is or may be expected to be totally or partially incapacitated for a remunerative occupation...
• 16 - Treatment and Care.
  A volunteer ambulance worker injured in line of duty shall be entitled to receive medical, surgical, podiatric, chiropractic, psychological and other attendance and treatment, nurse...
• 17 - Aliens.
  Financial benefits payable under this chapter to aliens not residents or about to become nonresidents of the United States or Canada shall be in the...
• 18 - Disposition of Accrued Benefits Upon Death.
  Except as otherwise provided in section ten of this article, in the case of the death of an injured volunteer ambulance worker to whom there...
• 19 - Exclusiveness of Remedy.
  The benefits provided by this chapter shall be the exclusive remedy of a volunteer ambulance worker, or his spouse, parents, dependents, next of kin, executor...
• 20 - Other Remedies of Volunteer Ambulance Workers; Subrogation.
  The provisions of section twenty-nine of the workers' compensation law to the extent that such provisions are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter,...
• 21 - Assistance to Other States, the Dominion of Canada, Property Ceded to the Federal Government and to Indian Reservations.
  1. Whenever an ambulance company or ambulance department in this state shall answer a call to furnish assistance to any political subdivision or territory of...
• 22 - Revenues and Benefits From Sources Other Than This Chapter.
  1. Benefits, savings or insurance of the injured or deceased volunteer ambulance worker, or insurance carried for his benefit under subsection (a) of section four...
• 23 - Assignments, Exemptions.
  Benefits payable under this article shall not be assigned, released or commuted, except as provided by this chapter, and shall be exempt from all claims...
• 24 - Waiver Agreements.
  No agreement or release by a volunteer ambulance worker, or, in the case of death, the dependents of a deceased volunteer ambulance worker, to waive...
• 25 - 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...

Last modified: February 3, 2019