New York Employers' Liability Law Article 2 - EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY.

• 2 - Employers' Liability for Injuries.
  When personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time: 1. By reason...
• 3 - Notice to Be Served.
  No action for recovery of compensation for injury or death under this article shall be maintained unless notice of the time, place and cause of...
• 4 - Assumption of Risks; Contributory Negligence, When a Question of Fact.
  An employee by entering upon or continuing in the service of the employer shall be presumed to have assented to the necessary risks of the...
• 5 - Trial; Burden of Proof.
  On the trial of any action brought by an employee or his personal representative to recover damages for negligence arising out of and in the...
• 6 - Defense; Insurance Fund.
  An employer who shall have contributed to an insurance fund created and maintained for the mutual purpose of indemnifying an employee for personal injuries, for...
• 7 - Existing Rights of Action Continued.
  Every right of action existing on the seventeenth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, for negligence or to recover damages for injuries resulting in...
• 8 - Consent by Employer and Employee to Compensation Plan.
  When and if any employer in this state and any of his employees shall consent to the compensation plan described in sections nine to fifteen,...
• 9 - Liability to Pay Compensation; Notice of Accident.
  If personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to the employee, the employer shall, subject as...
• 10 - Amount of Compensation; Persons Entitled; Physical Examination.
  The amount of compensation under the plan shall be: 1. In case death results from injury: (a) If the employee leaves a widow or next...
• 11 - Settlement of Disputes.
  Any question of law or fact arising in regard to the application of the plan in determining the compensation payable thereunder or otherwise shall be...
• 12 - Preferential Claim; Not Assignable or Subject to Attachment; Attorney's Fees.
  Any person entitled to weekly payments under the plan against any employer shall have the same preferential claim therefor against the assets of the employer...
• 13 - Cancellation of Consent.
  When a consent to the plan shall have been filed in the office of the county clerk as herein provided, it shall be binding upon...
• 14 - Reports of Compensation Plan.
  Each employer who shall sign with any employee a consent to the plan shall, within thirty days thereafter, file with the industrial commission a statement...
• 15 - Reports by Employer.
  Each employer of labor in this state who shall have entered into the plan with any employee shall, on or before the first day of...

Last modified: February 3, 2019