New York Workers' Compensation Law Article 3 - Occupational Diseases

• 37 - Definitions.
  Whenever used in this article: 1. "Disability" means the state of being disabled from earning full wages at the work at which the employee was...
• 38 - Disablement Treated As Accident.
  The disablement of an employee resulting from an occupational disease described in subdivision two of section three shall be treated as the happening of an...
• 39 - Right to Compensation.
  If an employee is disabled or dies and his disability or death is caused by one of the diseases mentioned in subdivision two of section...
• 41 - Examining Physicians.
  The chairman shall appoint one or more physicians whose duty it shall be to examine any claimant under this article and to make a report...
• 42 - Date of Disablement.
  For the purposes of this article the date of disablement shall be such date as the board may determine on the hearing on the claim.
• 44 - Liability of Employer.
  The total compensation due shall be recoverable from the employer who last employed the employee in the employment to the nature of which the disease...
• 44-a - Liability of Employer; Silicosis or Other Dust Diseases.
  The employer in whose employment an employee was last exposed to an injurious dust hazard shall be liable for the payments required by this chapter...
• 44-b - Liability of Employer; Compressed Air Illness.
  With respect to claims filed after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-one, for compensation on account of disability or death resulting from compressed air illness or...
• 45 - Notice to Employers.
  The employer to whom notice of death or disability is to be given, or against whom claim is to be made by the employee, shall...
• 46 - Information; Penalty.
  The employee or his dependents, if so requested, shall furnish the last employer or the board with such information as to the names and addresses...
• 47 - Presumption As to the Cause of Disease.
  If the employee, at or immediately before the date of disablement, was employed in any process mentioned in the second column of the schedule of...
• 48 - Diseases Which are Accidents.
  Nothing in this article shall affect the rights of an employee to recover compensation in respect to a disease to which this article does not...

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