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NY Work Comp L § 19-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 19-B - Treatment by Physicians in Employ of Board.

§  19-b.  Treatment  by  physicians  in  employ  of  board. No doctor,   physician or surgeon in the employ of the board shall solicit  or  treat   any  claimant  under  this chapter, or own or operate any clinic, giving   baking  and  massage,  physio-therapy,  or  other  treatment   to   such   claimants.  Such  doctors,  physicians  and surgeons shall not recommend   that a claimant be treated by any particular physician  or  surgeon,  or   receive  baking  and massage, physio-therapy or other treatment from any   particular person, clinic or hospital. Any such physician or surgeon may   recommend the necessary treatment needed and the board shall direct  the   employer  or  carrier to provide such treatment, but the board shall not   designate a particular physician, surgeon, clinic or hospital to provide   the treatment. The employer or  carrier  shall  furnish  the  prescribed   treatment  and  upon  their  failure so to do within five days after the   direction is made, the claimant may secure the same at  the  expense  of   the  employer  or  carrier.  Any physician or surgeon so employed by the   board who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty  of  a   misdemeanor.The  foregoing  provisions  of  this section prohibiting physicians or   surgeons in the employ of the board from recommending that a claimant be   treated by any particular physician or surgeon shall not  be  applicable   to  recommendations for specialist care of their patients who are or may   be claimants under article nine of this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 19-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 19-C - Actions Against Health Services Personnel; Defense and Indemnification.

§  19-c.  Actions  against  health  services  personnel;  defense  and   indemnification. The provisions  of  section  seventeen  of  the  public   officers law shall apply to actions and proceedings, against physicians,   nurses  and  other  employees  of the board whose duties involve medical   examinations under this chapter and the volunteer firefighters'  benefit   law or other health services, arising out of emergency medical treatment   given to board employees while at work or to claimants, their attorneys,   licensed  representatives,  witnesses,  employers, their representatives   and representatives of carriers, while visiting the offices of the board   or the hearing points at which proceedings are conducted  or  any  other   person properly on board premises.
NY Work Comp L § 21 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 21 - Presumptions.

§  21.  Presumptions. In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim   for compensation under this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence   of substantial evidence to the contrary1. That the claim comes within the provision of this chapter;2. That sufficient notice thereof was given;3. That the injury was not occasioned by the willful intention of  the   injured  employee  to  bring  about the injury or death of himself or of   another;4. That the injury did not result solely from the intoxication of  the   injured employee while on duty.5.  That  the  contents  of medical and surgical reports introduced in   evidence by claimants for  compensation  shall  constitute  prima  facie   evidence of fact as to the matter contained therein.
NY Work Comp L § 22 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 22 - Modification of Awards, Decisions or Orders.

§ 22. Modification of awards, decisions or orders. Upon its own motion   or  upon  the  application  of any party in interest, on the ground of a   change in conditions or proof of erroneous wage rate, the board  may  at   any time, subject to the limitations set forth in sections twenty-five-a   and  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  of this chapter, review any award,   decision or order and,  on  such  review,  may  make  an  award  ending,   diminishing  or  increasing the compensation previously awarded, subject   to  the  maximum  or  minimum  provided  in  this  chapter,  and   shall   immediately  send  to  the  parties  a copy of its decision, which shall   include a statement of the facts which formed the basis of  its  action.   No  such  review  shall  affect such award as regards any moneys already   paid, except that an award increasing the compensation rate may be  made   effective  from  date  of  injury,  and  except  that if any part of the   compensation due or to become due is unpaid,  an  award  decreasing  the   compensation rate may be made effective from the date of injury, and any   payments  made  prior  thereto in excess of such decreased rate shall be   deducted from any unpaid  compensation,  in  such  manner  and  by  such   methods as may be determined by the board.
NY Work Comp L § 24 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 24 - Costs and Fees.

§  24.  Costs  and fees. If the court before which any proceedings for   compensation or concerning an award of compensation have  been  brought,   under  this  chapter,  determine  that such proceedings have not been so   brought upon  reasonable  ground,  it  shall  assess  the  cost  of  the   proceedings  upon the party who has so brought them. Claims of attorneys   and counselors-at-law for legal services in connection  with  any  claim   arising  under  this  chapter,  and  claims  for  services  or treatment   rendered or supplies furnished pursuant to subdivision  (b)  of  section   thirteen  of  this  chapter, shall not be enforceable unless approved by   the board. If so approved, such claim or claims shall become a lien upon   the compensation awarded, and upon any  moneys  ordered  paid  under  an   award  by  the  board  into  the  special  funds provided for in section   fifteen, subdivision nine, and  section  twenty-five-a,  and  any  other   section  of this chapter, but shall be paid therefrom only in the manner   fixed by the board. Any other person,  firm  or  corporation  who  shall   exact  or receive fee or gratuity for any services rendered on behalf of   a claimant except in an amount determined by the board, shall be  guilty   of  a misdemeanor. Any person, firm or corporation who shall solicit the   business of appearing before the board on behalf of a claimant,  or  who   shall  make  it  a  business  to  solicit  employment  for  a  lawyer in   connection with any claim for compensation under this chapter  shall  be   guilty  of a misdemeanor. In case an award is affirmed upon an appeal to   the appellate division, the same shall be payable with interest  thereon   from  the  date when said award was made by the board except as provided   in section twenty-seven of this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 27-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 27-B - Amortization of Gains or Losses.

§  27-b.  Amortization of gains or losses. Gains or losses realized by   the aggregate trust fund as a result of transactions  made  pursuant  to   subdivision  two of section twenty-seven-a, or section twenty-seven-c of   this chapter, shall be transferred to a  special  asset  account  to  be   known  as  the  deferred  charge on account of security transactions and   shall be amortized within such account  on  a  basis  which  matches  as   nearly  as possible all gains or losses so realized against any increase   or decrease in income resulting from the reinvestment of the proceeds of   such transactions, provided that the period of amortization of the  gain   or  loss  resulting from the disposition of each investment shall not be   longer than the unexpired period from the date of  such  disposition  to   the maturity of the investment so disposed of, or on such other basis as   the   superintendent   of   financial  services  may  authorize  in  his   discretion.
NY Work Comp L § 28 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 28 - Limitation of Right to Compensation.

§  28.  Limitation  of  right  to  compensation.  The  right  to claim   compensation under this chapter shall be barred, except  as  hereinafter   provided,  unless  within  two  years  after  the  accident, or if death   results therefrom within  two  years  after  such  death,  a  claim  for   compensation  shall  be  filed  with  the chairman, but the employer and   insurance carrier shall be deemed to have waived the bar of the  statute   unless  the  objection to the failure to file the claim within two years   is raised on the first hearing on such claim at  which  all  parties  in   interest  are  present.  The  right of an employee to claim compensation   under this chapter for disablement caused by  any  occupational  disease   including  but  not  limited  to compressed air illness or its sequelae,   silicosis or other dust disease, latent or  delayed  pathological  bone,   blood or lung changes or malignancies due to occupational exposure to or   contact  with  arsenic,  benzol,  beryllium, zirconium, cadmium, chrome,   lead or fluorine or to exposure to x-rays, radium,  ionizing  radiation,   radio-active  substances,  or  any  other chemical compound shall not be   barred by the failure of the employee to file a claim within such period   of two years, provided such claim shall be filed after  such  period  of   two  years and within two years after disablement and after the claimant   knew or should have known that the disease is or was due to  the  nature   of  the  employment.  No  case in which an advance payment is made to an   employee or to his dependents in case of death shall be  barred  by  the   failure of the employee or his dependents to file a claim, and the board   may  at  any time order a hearing on any such case in the same manner as   though a claim for compensation had been filed.
NY Work Comp L § 31 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 31 - Agreement for Contribution by Employee Void.

§  31. Agreement for contribution by employee void. No agreement by an   employee to pay any portion of the premium paid by his employer  to  the   state  insurance  fund  or to contribute to a benefit fund or department   maintained by such employer or to the cost of mutual insurance or  other   insurance,  maintained  for  or  carried  for  the  purpose of providing   compensation as herein required, shall be valid, and  any  employer  who   makes  a  deduction  for  such  purpose  from the wages or salary of any   employee entitled to the benefits of this chapter shall be guilty  of  a   misdemeanor.
NY Work Comp L § 32-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 32-A - Waivers of Specific Coverage Prohibited.

§  32-a.  Waivers of specific coverage prohibited. All employers doing   business in this state shall ensure that their employees working in  New   York  state are insured for all protections required under this chapter.   Waivers of coverage shall not be available to out of state employers.
NY Work Comp L § 33 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 33 - Assignments; Exemptions.

§ 33. Assignments; exemptions. Compensation or benefits due under this   chapter  shall  not be assigned, released or commuted except as provided   by this chapter, and shall be exempt from all claims  of  creditors  and   from  levy,  execution  and  attachment  or other remedy for recovery or   collection of a debt,  which  exemption  may  not  be  waived  provided,   however,  that  compensation or benefits other than payments pursuant to   section thirteen of this chapter shall be subject to application  to  an   income  execution  or  order for support enforcement pursuant to section   fifty-two hundred forty-one or fifty-two hundred forty-two of the  civil   practice  law and rules. Compensation and benefits shall be paid only to   employees or their dependents, except as  hereinafter  in  this  chapter   provided.  In the case of the death of an injured employee to whom there   was due at the time of his or  her  death  any  compensation  under  the   provisions  of  this  chapter,  the amount of such compensation shall be   payable to the surviving spouse, if there be one, or, if  none,  to  the   surviving  child  or  children of the deceased under the age of eighteen   years, and if there be no surviving spouse  or  children,  then  to  the   dependents  of such deceased employee or to any of them as the board may   direct, and if there be no surviving spouse, children or  dependents  of   such  deceased employee, then to his estate. An award for disability may   be made after the death of the injured employee.
NY Work Comp L § 34 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 2 - Compensation 34 - Preferences.

§  34. Preferences. Compensation shall be a lien against the assets of   the carrier of employer without limit of amount subordinate, however, to   claims for unpaid wages and prior recorded liens. The provisions of this   section shall not apply to the state  insurance  fund  with  respect  to   those  liabilities  and  obligations  assumed  by  the state pursuant to   section eighty-seven-d of this chapter or as the result of any  insuring   agreement  between  the state insurance fund and the department of civil   service pursuant to section eighty-eight-c  of  this  chapter.  In  such   instances compensation shall be alien against the assets of the state as   the employer.
NY Work Comp L § 37 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 37 - Definitions.

§  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 last employed.2. "Disablement" means the act of becoming so disabled as  defined  in   subdivision one.
NY Work Comp L § 38 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 38 - Disablement Treated as Accident.

§  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 accident within   the meaning of this chapter and the procedure and practice  provided  in   this  chapter  shall apply to all proceedings under this article, except   where specifically otherwise provided herein.
NY Work Comp L § 39 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 39 - Right to Compensation.

§  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 three, and the disease is due to the nature   of the corresponding employment as  described  in  such  subdivision  in   which  such  employee  was engaged and was contracted therein, he or his   dependents shall be entitled to compensation for  the  duration  of  his   disablement  or  for  his  death  in  accordance  with the provisions of   articles two and three of this chapter, provided, however,  that  if  it   shall  be  determined that an employee so disabled is able to earn wages   at another occupation which shall be neither unhealthful nor  injurious,   and  such  wages  do  not  equal his full wages prior to the date of his   disablement, the compensation payable shall be computed pursuant to  the   provisions of article two of this chapter.
NY Work Comp L § 41 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 41 - Examining Physicians.

§  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 in such form as the chairman may require.
NY Work Comp L § 42 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 42 - Date of Disablement.

§  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.
NY Work Comp L § 44 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 44 - Liability of Employer.

§  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 was due and in which it   was contracted. If, however, such disease,  except  silicosis  or  other   dust  disease and compressed air illness or its sequelae, was contracted   while such employee was in the  employment  of  a  prior  employer,  the   employer  who  is  made liable for the total compensation as provided by   this section, may appeal to the  board  for  an  apportionment  of  such   compensation  among  the  several employers who since the contraction of   such disease shall have employed such employee in the employment to  the   nature  of  which  the  disease  was  due.  Such  apportionment shall be   proportioned to the time such employee was employed in  the  service  of   such  employers, and shall be determined only after a hearing, notice of   the time and place of which shall have  been  given  to  every  employer   alleged  to be liable for any portion of such compensation. If the board   finds that any portion of such compensation is payable  by  an  employer   prior  to  the employer who is made liable for the total compensation as   provided by this section, it shall make an award accordingly in favor of   the last employer, and such award may be enforced in the same manner  as   an award for compensation.
NY Work Comp L § 44-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 44-A - Liability of Employer; Silicosis or Other Dust Diseases.

§  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 when disability or  death  of  the  employee  shall  be  due  to   silicosis or other dust disease.
NY Work Comp L § 44-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 44-B - Liability of Employer; Compressed Air Illness.

§ 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 its sequelae, the employer who is  made  liable  for  the   total  compensation  as  provided by section forty-four of this article,   shall not be entitled to an apportionment  of  such  compensation  among   prior employers.
NY Work Comp L § 45 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 45 - Notice to Employers.

§  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  be  the employer who last employed the employee in the   employment to the nature of which the disease was due  and  such  notice   and  claim  shall  be  deemed seasonable as against prior employers. The   requirements as to notice as to occupational disease and death resulting   therefrom shall be the same as required  in  section  eighteen  of  this   chapter,  except  that  the notice shall be given to the employer within   two years after the disablement or after the  claimant  knew  or  should   have  known  that  the  disease  is due to the nature of the employment,   whichever is the later date.
NY Work Comp L § 46 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 46 - Information; Penalty.

§  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 of all his other employers   during the said twelve months, as he or they may possess;  and  if  such   information  is  not furnished, or is not sufficient to enable such last   employer to take proceedings against  a  prior  employer  under  section   forty-four,  unless  it  be  established  that  the disease actually was   contracted while the employee was in his employment, such last  employer   shall  not be liable to pay compensation, or, if such information is not   furnished or is not sufficient to enable  such  last  employer  to  take   proceedings  against other employers under section forty-four, such last   employer shall be liable only for such part of the total compensation as   under the particular circumstances the board may deem just; but a  false   statement in the information furnished as aforesaid shall not impair the   workman's rights unless the last employer is prejudiced thereby.
NY Work Comp L § 47 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 47 - Presumption as to the Cause of Disease.

§  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  diseases  in   subdivision two of section three of this chapter, and his or her disease   is the disease in the first column of such  schedule  set  opposite  the   description of the process, the disease presumptively shall be deemed to   have  been  due  to  the  nature of that employment. Any exposure to the   hazards of compressed air after July first, nineteen  hundred  forty-six   shall  be  presumed,  in  the  absence  of  substantial  evidence to the   contrary, to be injurious exposure.  Any  exposure  to  the  hazards  of   harmful  dust  in  this state for a period of sixty days after September   first, nineteen hundred thirty-five, shall be presumed, in  the  absence   of  substantial  evidence  to the contrary, to be an injurious exposure.   With respect to any state or local  correction  officer  as  defined  in   subdivision  twenty-five  of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law,   safety and security officer employed by the  office  of  mental  health,   security  hospital  treatment assistant employed by the office of mental   health, any uniformed court officer or court clerk of the unified  court   system  having  the  powers  of peace officer, the court reporter or the   court interpreter, an exposure to  the  blood  or  bodily  fluid  of  an   individual,  incarcerated,  confined  or otherwise, during the course of   his or her employment that is reported in  writing  to  such  correction   officer's,  safety  and  security officer's, security hospital treatment   assistant's, uniformed court officer's, court clerk's, court  reporter's   or  court  interpreter's  employer  within  twenty-four  hours  of  such   exposure, shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial  evidence  to   the  contrary,  to  be  an  injurious  exposure  if,  subsequent to such   exposure, such correction officer, safety and security officer, security   hospital treatment assistant,  uniformed  court  officer,  court  clerk,   court  reporter  or  court  interpreter  is diagnosed with a blood-borne   disease, including, but not limited to hepatitis C.
NY Work Comp L § 48 (2021)
2021 New York Laws WKC - Workers' Compensation Article 3 - Occupational Diseases 48 - Diseases Which Are Accidents.

§  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  apply  if  the  disease  is  an   accidental  personal  injury  within the meaning of subdivision seven of   section two of this chapter.