New York Workers' Compensation Law Article 4 - SECURITY FOR COMPENSATION

• 50 - Security for Payment of Compensation.
  An employer shall secure compensation to his employees in one or more of the following ways: 1. By insuring and keeping insured the payment of...
• 50-a - Self-Insurer Offset Fund.
  1. The chair shall maintain a fund to be known as the self-insurer offset fund and such fund shall be held in the sole custody...
• 50-b - Task Force on Group Self-Insurance.
  There is established the task force on group self-insurance whose membership shall consist of the chair or his or her designee, the superintendent of financial...
• 50-c - Self-Insured Bonds.
  1. The chair, with the commissioner of taxation and finance, is authorized to enter into a financing agreement with the dormitory authority, to be known...
• 51 - Posting of Notice Regarding Compensation.
  Every employer who has complied with section fifty of this article shall post and maintain in a conspicuous place or places in and about his...
• 52 - Effect of Failure to Secure Compensation.
  1. (a) Failure to secure the payment of compensation for five or less employees within a twelve month period shall constitute a misdemeanor, and is...
• 53 - Release From Liability.
  An employer securing the payment of compensation by contributing premiums to the state fund shall thereby become relieved from all liability for personal injuries or...
• 54 - The Insurance Contract.
  1. Right of recourse to the insurance carrier. Every policy of insurance covering the liability of the employer for compensation shall be issued by one...
• 54-a - Security Where Coverage is in Issue.
  Where the issue of policy coverage is raised by a carrier in any hearing or proceeding before the board, and an appeal by the carrier,...
• 54-b - Enforcement on Failure to Pay Award or Judgment.
  In case of default by a carrier or self-insured employer in the payment of any compensation due under an award for the period of thirty...
• 55 - Acceptance of Premium by Carrier an Estoppel.
  Acceptance of a premium on a policy securing to an employee compensation, either alone or in connection with other insurance, shall estop the carrier so...
• 56 - Subcontractors.
  A contractor, the subject of whose contract is, involves or includes a hazardous employment, who subcontracts all or any part of such contract shall, in...
• 57 - Restriction on Issue of Permits and the Entering Into Contracts Unless Compensation is Secured.
  1. The head of a state or municipal department, board, commission or office authorized or required by law to issue any permit for or in...
• 58 - Payment of Compensation to Persons Providing Housekeeping or Nursing Services.
  An employer under the workmen's compensation law, or the insurance carrier under the policy of workmen's compensation insurance covering such employer, or any other person...

Last modified: February 3, 2019