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2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 85 - Commissioner of Taxation and Finance Custodian of Fund.

§  85.  Commissioner  of  taxation and finance custodian of fund.  The
  commissioner of taxation and finance shall be the custodian of the state
  insurance fund; and all disbursements therefrom shall  be  paid  by  him
  upon  drafts signed by the executive director, deputy executive director
  or  an  assistant  director  authorized  for   that   purpose   by   the
  commissioners  or  by  checks  signed by one of such officers and by the
  commissioner of taxation and finance. He may deposit any portion of  the
  state  fund  not  needed for immediate use, in the manner and subject to
  all the provisions of law respecting the deposit of other state funds by
  him. Interest earned  by  such  portion  of  the  state  insurance  fund
  deposited  by him, shall be collected by him and placed to the credit of
  the fund.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 86 - Catastrophe Surplus and Reserves for Workers' Compensation.

§  86. Catastrophe surplus and reserves for workers' compensation. Ten
  per centum of the premiums collected from employers insured in the  fund
  for  workers'  compensation  shall  be  set  aside for the creation of a
  surplus until such surplus shall  amount  to  the  sum  of  one  hundred
  thousand dollars, and thereafter five per centum of such premiums, until
  such  time as in the judgment of the commissioners such surplus shall be
  sufficiently large to  cover  the  catastrophe  hazard.  Thereafter  the
  contribution  to such surplus may be reduced or discontinued conditional
  upon  constant  maintenance  of  a  sufficient  surplus  to  cover   the
  catastrophe  hazard. Reserves shall be set up and maintained adequate to
  meet anticipated losses and carry all claims and policies  to  maturity,
  which  reserves shall be computed to reflect the present values, at five
  percent interest per annum,  of  the  determined  and  estimated  unpaid
  losses, and other requirements computed in accordance with such rules as
  shall be approved by the superintendent of financial services.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 86-A - Catastrophe Surplus and Reserves for Disability Benefits.

§  86-a.  Catastrophe  surplus  and  reserves for disability benefits.
  Subject to such rules as shall be  approved  by  the  superintendent  of
  financial  services,  there  shall be set aside out of the premiums paid
  into the disability  benefits  fund  an  amount  sufficient  to  provide
  against  catastrophe  and  epidemics  and  reserves  to meet anticipated
  losses and carry all claims to maturity.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 87-E - Amortization of Gains or Losses.

§  87-e.  Amortization of gains or losses. Gains or losses realized by
  the state insurance fund as a result of sales or  dispositions  pursuant
  to   the   authorization   and   direction  of  section  eighty-seven-a,
  eighty-seven-b, eighty-seven-bb, eighty-seven-c,  or  eighty-seven-f  of
  this chapter shall be transferred to a special asset account to be known
  as  the  deferred  charge  on account of security exchanges 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  sales or dispositions, provided that the period of amortization of
  the gain or  loss  resulting  from  the  sale  or  disposition  of  each
  investment  shall  not be longer than the unexpired period from the date
  of such sale or disposition to the maturity of the investment so sold or
  disposed of, or on such other basis as the superintendent  of  financial
  services may authorize in his discretion.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 88*2 - Administration Expenses.

* §  88.  Administration expenses. The entire expense of administering
  the state insurance fund shall be paid out of such fund which shall  not
  be  considered  an  agency  or  a  fund of the state for the purposes of
  section four of the state finance law.  The  portion  of  such  expenses
  applicable  and  chargeable  to  the  disability  benefits fund shall be
  determined on an equitable basis with due allowance for the division  of
  overhead  expenses.  There  shall  be  submitted  to the director of the
  budget quarterly financial statements on a calendar year  basis.  In  no
  case  shall  the amount of administrative expenditures so authorized for
  an entire year from the workers' compensation  fund  exceed  twenty-five
  per  centum  of the earned premiums for such insurance for that year. In
  no case shall the amount of administrative expenditures  authorized  for
  the  disability  benefits fund for an entire year exceed twenty-five per
  centum of the premiums earned by that fund for such insurance  for  that
  year.  No payment, expenditure or refund out of the state insurance fund
  shall be subject to pre-audit by the department of audit and control  as
  provided  by  section  one  hundred eleven of the state finance law. All
  appointments to positions in the state  insurance  fund  shall  be  made
  subject to civil service requirements.
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2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 88-A - Payments From Special or Administrative Funds.

§  88-a.  Payments  from special or administrative funds. Whenever the
  compensation of  any  employees  of  the  state  insured  in  the  state
  insurance  fund  is  paid from a special or administrative fund provided
  for by law, all payments to  the  state  insurance  fund  for  insurance
  premiums on account of such employees including a proportionate share of
  the  administrative  expense  of  the  state  insurance  fund on account
  thereof, which otherwise would be payable from the general fund  of  the
  state  treasury, shall, with the approval of the director of the budget,
  be paid from such special or administrative fund.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 88-B - Coverage of Employees in State-Supported Educational Institutions.

§   88-b.   Coverage   of  employees  in  state-supported  educational
  institutions. Compensations payable under this chapter to  employees  of
  state colleges, schools and experiment stations, administered by Cornell
  university, Syracuse university and Alfred university shall be paid from
  the  state  insurance fund, and all payments to the state insurance fund
  for  insurance  premiums  on  account  of  such  employees  including  a
  proportionate share of the administrative expense of the state insurance
  fund  on  account  thereof  shall be paid out of the general fund of the
  state treasury from  moneys  deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  public
  services fund therein.
The  payroll  records of the employees so covered shall be established
  and segregated with the approval of the director of the budget.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 90 - Dividends.

§ 90. Dividends. Policyholders insured in the state insurance fund may
  be  divided  into  such  groups as shall be equitable for the purpose of
  accounting and declaration of dividends but for the  purpose  of  paying
  compensation  the  state  fund  shall  be  deemed  one  and indivisible.
  Separate accounts shall be kept of income and  of  losses  and  expenses
  incurred,  including  contributions  to catastrophe surplus and reserves
  adequate to meet anticipated losses and carry all  claims  to  maturity,
  for each such group. If such accounting shows a balance remaining to the
  credit  of  the  group at the close of any policy period, which shall be
  deemed to be safely and properly so applied, there may  be  credited  or
  paid  to  each  individual  member of such group such proportion of such
  balance as the amount of his earned premium sustains to the total earned
  premium of the group for the period for which the accounting is made. If
  any member who has withdrawn from the group would  otherwise  have  been
  entitled to such a dividend, the same may be credited or paid to him.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 91 - Groups for Accident Prevention.

§  91. Groups for accident prevention. For any group established under
  the provisions of section ninety membership in the group of any employer
  otherwise entitled to  be  admitted  thereto  may  be  conditional  upon
  acceptance  and maintenance of special rules as to administration and as
  to accident prevention and medical care of employees. Such limitation of
  membership in the group may be established  only  upon  proper  evidence
  that a majority of the members of the group have approved such rules and
  only  when  such  rules  have  been  approved  by  the  commissioners as
  sufficient to  constitute  a  proper  basis  of  differentiation  as  to
  membership in the group.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 92 - Payment of Premiums.

§ 92. Payment of premiums. 1. Workers' compensation insurance premiums
  for any policy period shall be paid into the state insurance fund at the
  beginning of the period when the amount of such premium is less than one
  thousand dollars according to the estimated expenditure of wages for the
  period  except to the extent that rules of the commissioners permit such
  amount to be paid by installments. For all other policyholders, workers'
  compensation insurance premiums  for  any  policy  period  based  on  an
  estimated expenditure of wages for the period may, at the policyholders'
  option,  be  paid  into  the  state  insurance  fund  by installments in
  accordance with rules promulgated by the commissioners.
2. Disability benefits insurance premiums for any period shall be paid
  into the state insurance fund at the beginning of the  period  according
  to  the  estimated  expenditure  of  wages  for the period except to the
  extent that rules of the commissioners permit such amount to be paid  by
  installments.
3. At the end of the period an adjustment of the premium shall be made
  according  to  the actual expenditure of wages. If such adjusted premium
  is more than the premium paid  at  the  beginning  of  the  period,  the
  policyholder  shall  pay the difference immediately upon notification of
  the amount due except to  the  extent  that  rules  promulgated  by  the
  commissioners  permit  such  amount  to be paid by installments. If such
  adjusted premium is less than the premium paid  in  advance,  the  state
  insurance  fund  shall,  at the policyholder's option, either refund the
  difference or credit the amount thereof to  the  policyholder's  account
  with the state insurance fund.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 94 - Withdrawal From Fund.

§  94.  Withdrawal from fund.   a.    Any employer may, upon complying
  with subdivision two or three of section fifty of this chapter, withdraw
  from the fund by turning in his  insurance  contract  for  cancellation,
  provided  he  has  given  written notice to the fund of his intention to
  withdraw not less than thirty days before the  effective  date  of  such
  cancellation.   Upon receipt of such notice the fund shall, at least ten
  days prior to the effective date file in the office of  the  chairman  a
  notice of such cancellation date.
In  no event shall the insurance contract be deemed cancelled until at
  least ten days after the date of such filing, any earlier date mentioned
  in the notice to the contrary notwithstanding.
If an employer withdraws from the fund upon complying with subdivision
  two of section fifty of this chapter, the new  insurance  contract  with
  the stock corporation, mutual corporation or reciprocal insurer shall be
  deemed  not  to  take  effect  until the cancellation of such employer's
  contract with the state insurance fund has become effective.
b. Notwithstanding any of the provisions contained in subdivision five
  of section fifty-four of this chapter the fund may cancel a contract  of
  insurance at any time during the contract period upon being furnished by
  an  employer  with  proof  satisfactory to the fund that he is no longer
  required to comply with section fifty of this chapter by reason  of  his
  having  discontinued,  sold, transferred, assigned or otherwise disposed
  of his business and has ceased  employing  workmen  or  operatives;  or,
  where  the  insurance  contract  has been issued to cover the operations
  under a  specific  contract  or  at  a  specified  location,  that  such
  operations  have  been  completed  or discontinued and the employment of
  workmen or operatives in  connection  therewith  has  ceased;  provided,
  however, such cancellation shall not become effective until at least ten
  days  after  notice  thereof  shall have been filed in the office of the
  chairman.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 95 - Record and Audit of Payrolls.

§ 95. Record and audit of payrolls.  (1) Every employer who is insured
in the state insurance fund shall keep a true and accurate record of the
number  of  his  employees and the wages paid by him, and shall furnish,
upon demand, a sworn statement of the same.  Such record shall  be  open
to inspection at any time and as often as may be necessary to verify the
number  of  employees  and  the amount of the payroll.  Any employer who
shall fail to keep such record, who shall willfully fail to furnish such
record or who shall willfully falsify any such record, shall  be  guilty
of a misdemeanor.
(2) Employers subject to subdivision (e) of section two thousand three
hundred  four  of  the  insurance  law  and  subdivision  two of section
eighty-nine of this article shall keep a true  and  accurate  record  of
hours  worked for all construction classification employees. The willful
failure to keep such record, or the knowing falsification  of  any  such
record,  may  be  prosecuted  as  insurance fraud in accordance with the
provisions of section 176.05 of the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 96 - Penalties for Fraudulent Practices.

§ 96. Penalties for fraudulent practices.  1. Any person who knowingly
  makes  a  false statement or representation, conceals any material fact,
  or engages in any other fraudulent scheme or device for the  purpose  of
  obtaining, maintaining or renewing insurance in the state insurance fund
  at  less than the proper rate for such insurance, whether for himself or
  herself or any other person or entity, or for the purpose of evading the
  requirements of section fifty of this chapter  or  for  the  purpose  of
  obtaining  any  benefit or payment out of such fund, whether for himself
  or herself or any other person or entity, shall be guilty of a  class  E
  felony. If a violation of this subdivision is alleged and such act could
  also  constitute  a  violation  of  the  penal law or any other law, the
  prosecuting official may charge such person pursuant to  the  provisions
  of this section and charge such person in accordance with such other law
  or laws. In addition to any other remedy, the state insurance fund shall
  be  entitled  to  restitution  for  any amount obtained or withheld as a
  result of a violation of this subdivision.
2. For violations of  subdivision  one  of  this  section,  the  state
  insurance  fund  shall  have  a right of action to recover civil damages
  equal to three times the amount wrongfully obtained,  or  five  thousand
  dollars, whichever is greater. The remedy provided in this section shall
  be in addition to any other remedy provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 97 - Inspections.

§  97.  Inspections. The commissioners shall have the right to inspect
  the  plants  and  establishments  of  employers  insured  in  the  state
  insurance fund; and the inspectors designated by the commissioners shall
  have free access to such premises during regular working hours.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 98 - Disclosures Prohibited.

§  98.  Disclosures  prohibited.  Information as required by the state
  fund, or its officers or employees, from employers or employees pursuant
  to this chapter shall not  be  opened  to  public  inspection,  and  any
  officer  or  employee  who,  without  authority  of the commissioners or
  pursuant to their regulations, or as otherwise required  by  law,  shall
  disclose the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 99 - Reports of State Insurance Fund.

§ 99. Reports of state insurance fund. 1. The commissioners shall make
  separate  reports to the superintendent of financial services concerning
  the state insurance fund at the same time and in the same manner  as  is
  required  from  mutual  employer's  liability  and workers' compensation
  corporations by section three hundred seven of the  insurance  law,  and
  the  superintendent of financial services may examine into the condition
  of such state insurance fund at any time, either personally  or  by  any
  duly authorized examiner appointed by him for the purpose of determining
  the  condition  of  the  investments and the adequacy of the reserves of
  such fund and such other matters as shall be in the jurisdiction of  the
  superintendent of financial services.
2.  The  commissioners shall file annually with the state comptroller,
  on  or  before  June  fifteenth,  financial  statements  for  the  state
  insurance  fund audited by an independent auditor. Such statements shall
  be prepared in the same manner as reports filed with the  superintendent
  of  financial  services under subdivision one of this section. A copy of
  the  independent  auditor's  report  shall   accompany   any   financial
  statements submitted pursuant to this subdivision.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6 - State Insurance Fund. › 100 - Insurance Against Liability to Volunteer Firefighters and Ambulance Workers.

§  100.  Insurance  against  liability  to  volunteer firefighters and
  ambulance workers. Insurance contracts issued  by  the  state  insurance
  fund  to  insure political subdivisions against liability in relation to
  volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers   under   the
  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers'
  benefit  law  shall  be  designated  "volunteer  firefighters'   benefit
  insurance"  or  "volunteer  ambulance  workers'  benefit insurance". The
  provisions of this article which are not  inconsistent  with  such  laws
  shall  be  applicable in relation to such insurance. The following terms
  used  in  this  article,  unless   inconsistent   with   the   volunteer
  firefighters'  benefit  law  or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit
  law, are hereby enlarged as follows:
1. "Employer" includes any political subdivision liable  for  benefits
  pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer
  ambulance workers' benefit law.
2. "Employee" includes a volunteer firefighter or volunteer  ambulance
  worker  who  has been or might be injured in line of duty or who dies or
  might die from such  an  injury.  When  a  political  subdivision  or  a
  district  or  area  thereof  is  responsible for the payment of benefits
  pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer
  ambulance  workers'  benefit  law,  it shall be deemed the "employer" of
  such "employee."
3. "Workers' compensation" and "compensation" include the benefits  in
  relation  to  volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers
  pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer
  ambulance workers' benefit law.
4. "This chapter" includes the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and
  the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, except when such a meaning
  is inconsistent with this article.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 107 - Workers' Compensation Security Fund.

§ 107. Workers' compensation security fund. The purpose of the fund is
  to  assure  to  persons  and funds entitled thereto the compensation and
  benefits provided by this chapter for employments insured  in  insolvent
  carriers,  including the return of unearned premiums. Such fund shall be
  applicable to the payment of awards for compensation or  death  benefits
  and  to the payment of benefits into the special funds created under the
  provisions of subdivisions eight and nine of section fifteen and section
  twenty-five-a of this chapter heretofore or hereafter made  pursuant  to
  this  chapter,  and  remaining unpaid, in whole or in part, by reason of
  the default, after the effective date of this article, of  an  insolvent
  carrier  including  the return of unearned premiums, but such fund shall
  not be applicable to the payment of any amounts due under any policy  of
  reinsurance  issued  to  an  insurance  carrier.  The fund shall also be
  applicable to the payment of liability claims against an employer  under
  the  employer's  liability  insurance  portion  of the standard New York
  workers' compensation and employer's liability insurance policy, but  no
  payment  from  the fund for such liability claim shall exceed the lesser
  of the policy limit or one million dollars on any one claim. Expenses of
  administration also shall be paid from the fund as herein provided. Such
  fund shall consist of all contributions received and paid into the  fund
  by  carriers,  as herein defined, of property and securities acquired by
  and through the use of moneys belonging to  the  fund  and  of  interest
  earned upon moneys deposited or invested as herein provided. The payment
  of  the  return of unearned premiums and the payment of liability claims
  provided for pursuant to the provisions of this section  shall  be  made
  only  if  the  fund  is  determined  by  the superintendent of financial
  services to be sufficient to satisfy  all  claims  for  compensation  or
  death  benefits  and  to  the payment of benefits into the special funds
  created under the provisions of subdivisions eight and nine  of  section
  fifteen and section twenty-five-a of this chapter and, provided further,
  that the superintendent of financial services shall designate sufficient
  assets  from this fund for the payment of such claims which shall not at
  any time be diverted to any other use or  purpose.  The  fund  shall  be
  administered  by  the superintendent of financial services in accordance
  with the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 109 - Suspension of Payments Into Fund; Temporary Surcharge Authorized.

§   109.   Suspension  of  payments  into  fund;  temporary  surcharge
  authorized.  1. When as of the end of any quarterly period the amount of
  assets in the fund, as determined by  the  superintendent  of  financial
  services, including any appropriation to such fund from the general fund
  equals or exceeds seventy-four million dollars, no further contributions
  to  such  fund shall be required to be made after that quarterly period,
  provided, however, that whenever as of any subsequent  quarterly  period
  the amount of such assets is less than seventy-four million dollars such
  contributions  shall  be  resumed  at the beginning of the next quarter.
  Thereafter the  suspension  or  resumption  of  contributions  shall  be
  governed by the foregoing provisions. During the period of time in which
  any  loans  to  the  fund  made  pursuant to section seven thousand four
  hundred thirty-three-a of the insurance law are outstanding, any  assets
  available  after  the  payment of awards pursuant to section one hundred
  nine-c of this article shall be used to repay  such  loans  and  not  be
  counted as assets for purposes of this section.
2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  for each of the three month periods, commencing  April  first,  nineteen
  hundred   ninety   and   ending  March  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-five, every mutual and every reciprocal carrier  shall  pay  into
  the  fund  a  surcharge  equal  to  one  per  centum  of its net written
  premiums, less the amount of dividends paid to  policyholders,  for  the
  period  of  such  return.  Such  surcharge  shall  be in addition to any
  payments which may be required pursuant to subdivision  two  of  section
  one hundred eight of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 109-A - Administration of Fund.

§  109-a.  Administration  of  fund.  The  superintendent of financial
  services  may  adopt,  amend  and  enforce  all  reasonable  rules   and
  regulations necessary for the proper administration of said fund. In the
  event  any  carrier  shall  fail  to file any return or make any payment
  required by this article, or in case  the  superintendent  of  financial
  services  shall have cause to believe that any return or other statement
  filed is false or inaccurate in any particular, or that any payment made
  is incorrect, the superintendent shall have full  authority  to  examine
  all the books and records of the carrier for the purpose of ascertaining
  the  facts  and  shall  determine  the correct amount to be paid and may
  proceed in any court  of  competent  jurisdiction  to  recover  for  the
  benefit  of  the fund any sums shown to be due upon such examination and
  determination. Any carrier which fails to make any statement as required
  by this article, or to pay any contribution to the fund when due,  shall
  thereby  forfeit to said fund a penalty of five per centum of the amount
  of unpaid contribution determined to be due as provided by this  article
  plus  one per centum of such amount for each month of delay, or fraction
  thereof, after the expiration of the first month of such delay  but  the
  superintendent, if satisfied that the delay was excusable, may remit all
  or  any part of such penalty. The superintendent, in his discretion, may
  revoke the certificate of authority to do business in this state of  any
  foreign  carrier  which shall fail to comply with this article or to pay
  any penalty imposed in accordance with this article.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 109-D - Notification of Insolvency.

§  109-d.  Notification  of  insolvency. Duties of chairman. Forthwith
  upon any carrier becoming an insolvent carrier,  the  superintendent  of
  financial  services  shall so notify the chairman, who shall immediately
  advise the superintendent (a) of all claims for compensation pending  or
  thereafter made against an employer insured by such insolvent carrier or
  against  such  insolvent carrier; (b) of all unpaid or continuing awards
  and decisions made upon claims prior to or after the date of such notice
  from the superintendent; and (c) of all appeals from or applications for
  modification or rescission or review of such awards or decisions.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 109-E - Rights and Duties of Superintendent of Financial Services as Administrator of the Fund.

§  109-e. Rights and duties of superintendent of financial services as
  administrator of the fund. The superintendent of financial services  may
  designate or appoint a duly authorized representative or representatives
  to  appear  and  defend  an  insured against a liability claim under the
  employer's  liability  portion  of  the  standard  New   York   workers'
  compensation  and  employer's  liability insurance policy, and to appear
  and defend before the board  any  or  all  claims  for  compensation  or
  benefits  against an employer insured by an insolvent carrier or against
  such insolvent carrier. The superintendent of financial  services  shall
  have,  as  of  the  date  of the insolvency of any carrier, only all the
  rights and duties which  the  insurance  carrier  would  have  had  with
  respect  to  awards made or claims for compensation or benefits filed or
  pending, or pending liability claims, if it had  not  become  insolvent.
  For  the purposes of this article the superintendent shall have power to
  employ such counsel, clerks and assistants  as  may  by  him  be  deemed
  necessary, and to give each of such persons such powers to assist him as
  he may consider wise.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 6-A - Workers' Compensation Security Fund › 109-F - Expenses of Administration.

§  109-f. Expenses of administration. The expense of administering the
  fund shall be paid out of the fund. Prior to the first days of  January,
  April,  July and October there shall be submitted to the director of the
  budget  for  approval  an  estimated  budget  of  expenditures  for  the
  succeeding  three  months.  There may not be expended for the purpose of
  administering the fund more  than  the  amounts  as  authorized  by  the
  director  of  the budget. The superintendent of financial services shall
  serve as administrator of the fund without additional compensation,  but
  may  be  allowed  and  paid  from  the  fund  expenses  incurred  in the
  performance of his duties in connection with the fund. The  compensation
  of  those  persons employed by the superintendent of financial services,
  within the amounts approved by the director  of  the  budget,  shall  be
  deemed  administration expense payable from the fund. The superintendent
  of financial  services  shall  include  in  his  annual  report  to  the
  legislature a statement of the expense of administering the fund for the
  preceding year.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 110-B - Reporting of Injuries to Employer.

§   110-b.  Reporting  of  injuries  to  employer.  Every  farm  labor
  contractor, foreman or supervisor of farm laborers who has notice of any
  injury to a farm laborer incurred during the course of employment  shall
  be  required  to inform the employer, owner or operator of a farm of any
  such injury.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 111 - Information to Be Furnished by Employer.

§  111.  Information to be furnished by employer. Every employer shall
  furnish the chairman, upon request, any information required by  him  to
  carry  out  the  provisions of this chapter.   The chairman or board may
  examine under oath any employer, officer, agent or employee. An employer
  or an employee receiving from the chairman a blank  with  directions  to
  file  the  same  shall cause the same to be properly filled out so as to
  answer fully and correctly all questions therein, or if unable to do so,
  shall give good and sufficient reasons for such failure. Answers to such
  questions shall be subscribed  by  the  employer  or  the  employee  and
  affirmed  as  true  under  the  penalties of perjury and returned to the
  chairman within the period fixed by the chairman therefor.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 112 - Inspection of Records of Employers.

§  112.  Inspection  of  records  of employers. All books, records and
  payrolls of the employers, showing or reflecting in  any  way  upon  the
  amount  of  wage expenditures of such employers shall always be open for
  inspection  by  the  chairman  for  the  purpose  of  ascertaining   the
  correctness  of the wage expenditure and number of men employed and such
  other information as may be necessary for the uses and purposes  of  the
  chairman in the administration of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 113 - Interstate Commerce.

§ 113. Interstate commerce. The provisions of this chapter shall apply
  to employers and employees engaged in intrastate, and also interstate or
  foreign commerce, for whom a rule of liability or method of compensation
  has  been  or  may  be established by the congress of the United States,
  only to the extent that their mutual connection with intrastate work may
  and shall be clearly separable and distinguishable  from  interstate  or
  foreign  commerce,  provided  that awards according to the provisions of
  this chapter may be made by the board in respect of injuries subject  to
  the  admiralty  or other federal laws in case the claimant, the employer
  and the insurance carrier waive their admiralty or  interstate  commerce
  rights  and  remedies,  and  the state insurance fund or other insurance
  carrier may assume liability for the payment of such awards  under  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 114 - Penalties for Fraudulent Practices.

§  114.  Penalties  for  fraudulent  practices.  1.  Any  person  who,
  knowingly and with intent to defraud presents, causes to  be  presented,
  or  prepares with knowledge or belief that it will be presented to or by
  an insurer or purported insurer,  or  any  agent  thereof,  any  written
  statement  as part of, or in support of, an application for the issuance
  of or the rating of an insurance policy for compensation insurance, or a
  claim for payment or other benefit pursuant  to  a  compensation  policy
  which   he   or   she  knows  to:  (i)  contain  a  false  statement  or
  representation concerning any fact material thereto; or (ii)  omits  any
  fact  material  thereto,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  class E felony. Upon
  conviction, the court in addition to any other authorized sentence,  may
  order  forfeiture  of  all  rights  to  compensation  or payments of any
  benefit, and may also require restitution of any amount  received  as  a
  result of a violation of this subdivision.
2. An employer or carrier, or any employee, agent, or person acting on
  behalf  of an employer or carrier, who knowingly makes a false statement
  or representation as to a material fact  in  the  course  of  reporting,
  investigation  of, or adjusting a claim for any benefit or payment under
  this chapter for the purpose of avoiding provision of  such  payment  or
  benefit shall be guilty of a class E felony.
3. A person who knowingly makes a false statement or representation as
  to a material fact for the purpose of obtaining, maintaining or renewing
  insurance  under this chapter, whether for himself or herself or for any
  other person or entity or for the purpose of evading the requirements of
  section fifty of this chapter shall be guilty of a class  E  felony.  In
  addition  to  any other remedy, the carrier providing insurance shall be
  entitled to restitution of any amount obtained or withheld as  a  result
  of a violation of this subdivision.
4.  Consistent  with  the provisions of the criminal procedure law, in
  any prosecution alleging a violation of subdivision one, two or three of
  this section, or sections fifty-two and one hundred thirty-one  of  this
  chapter,  in  which  the  act  or  acts  alleged  may  also constitute a
  violation of the penal or other law, the prosecuting official may charge
  a person pursuant to the provisions of this  section  and  in  the  same
  accusatory instrument with a violation of such other law.
5.  A  person  (a)  who is convicted of a second or subsequent offense
  under this section within ten years of the prior conviction, or (b)  who
  violates any provision of this section concerning two or more claimants,
  shall be guilty of a class D felony.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 114-A - Disqualification for False Representation.

§  114-a.  Disqualification  for  false  representation. 1. If for the
purpose of obtaining compensation pursuant to section  fifteen  of  this
chapter,  or  for the purpose of influencing any determination regarding
any such payment, a  claimant  knowingly  makes  a  false  statement  or
representation  as to a material fact, such person shall be disqualified
from receiving any compensation  directly  attributable  to  such  false
statement  or  representation.  In addition, as determined by the board,
the claimant shall be subject to a  disqualification  or  an  additional
penalty  up  to  the foregoing amount directly attributable to the false
statement or representation. Any penalty monies shall be paid  into  the
state treasury.
2. If with the knowledge of a claimant, another person knowingly makes
a  false  statement  or  representation  as  to  a material fact for the
purpose of assisting a claimant in either obtaining, or influencing  any
determination regarding compensation pursuant to section fifteen of this
chapter,   such   claimant   may  be  disqualified  from  receiving  any
compensation  directly  attributable  to   such   false   statement   or
representation.  In  addition,  as determined by the board, the claimant
may be subject to a disqualification or an additional penalty up to  the
foregoing  amount  directly  attributable  to  the  false  statement  or
representation. Any penalty monies shall be deposited to the  credit  of
the general fund of the state.
3.  If  the board or any court having jurisdiction over proceedings in
respect of any claim for compensation determines that the proceedings in
respect of such claim, including any appeals, have  been  instituted  or
continued without reasonable ground:
(i)  the  cost of such proceedings shall be assessed against the party
who has so instituted or  continued  the  proceedings,  which  shall  be
payable to the board for administrative expenses pursuant to section one
hundred fifty-one of this chapter;
(ii)  reasonable attorneys' fees shall be assessed against an attorney
or licensed representative who has instituted or  continued  proceedings
without  reasonable  grounds,  which  assessment shall be payable to the
board for  administrative  expenses  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred
fifty-one  of this chapter. Fees awarded under this provision may not be
recouped from the party; and
(iii) such assessments shall be  in  addition  to  any  other  penalty
permitted under this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 114-B - Readjustment of an Employer's Experience Rating.

§  114-b. Readjustment of an employer's experience rating. If pursuant
  to section one hundred fourteen-a of this chapter, benefits or  payments
  are  suspended  or otherwise prohibited, and so long as the employer has
  not been found to be in violation of section  one  hundred  fourteen  of
  this  chapter,  such employer's experience rating, or where the employer
  is not experience rated, any surcharges resulting  from  the  fraudulent
  claim,  shall  be  readjusted  to reflect the position in which it would
  have been, or the experience rating which it would have  had,  had  such
  fraudulent claim not been made.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 114-C - Multiple Offenses.

§  114-c.  Multiple  offenses.  Any  provision  of  this chapter which
  imposes additional penalties for a second or  subsequent  offense  shall
  apply  whenever the prior offense was committed by a substantially owned
  affiliated entity of the party subject to penalty.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 116 - Sessions.

§  116.  Sessions.  The offices of the chairman and the board shall be
  open for business during all business hours of all days  except  Sundays
  and  legal  holidays.  All  sessions  of  the board shall be public. The
  records of the board shall contain a record of each case considered, and
  all awards, decisions or orders with respect thereto.   For  convenience
  of  parties  and  prevention  of  delay  or  expense, the board may hold
  sessions in cities other than Albany.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 117 - Rules.

§  117. Rules. 1. The board may adopt reasonable rules consistent with
  and supplemental to the provisions of this chapter and  the  labor  law.
  The  chairman  may  make  reasonable  regulations  consistent  with  the
  provisions of this chapter and the labor law.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  this  chapter,  the  board
  shall,  at  least  forty-five  days  prior  to  the adoption, amendment,
  suspension or repeal of any rule or regulation of the board  or  of  the
  chairman, give or cause to be given notice and offer any person or other
  agency an opportunity to present data, views or arguments, in accordance
  with the provisions of subdivision one of section two hundred two of the
  state   administrative  procedure  act,  providing,  however,  that  the
  inadvertent failure to mail notice to any person or agency  as  provided
  therein  shall not invalidate any rule or regulation adopted thereunder.
  A proceeding to contest any rule on the grounds  of  noncompliance  with
  the procedural requirements of such subdivision must be commenced within
  four months from the effective date of the rule or regulation.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 118 - Technical Rules of Evidence or Procedure Not Required.

§  118.  Technical  rules  of evidence or procedure not required.  The
  chairman or board in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting  a
  hearing  shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence
  or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this
  chapter; but may make such investigation  or  inquiry  or  conduct  such
  hearing  in  such  manner  as to ascertain the substantial rights of the
  parties. Declarations of a deceased  employee  concerning  the  accident
  shall   be   received   in   evidence  and  shall,  if  corroborated  by
  circumstances or other evidence, be sufficient to establish the accident
  and the injury.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 118-A - Effect of Findings and Determinations in Subsequent Proceedings.

§   118-a.   Effect  of  findings  and  determinations  in  subsequent
  proceedings. With respect to an action for a workers' compensation claim
  permissible under this chapter, no finding or decision by  the  workers'
  compensation  board,  judge  or  other arbiter shall be given collateral
  estoppel effect in any other action or proceeding  arising  out  of  the
  same  occurrence,  other  than  the determination of the existence of an
  employer employee relationship.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 119 - Subpoenas.

§  119.  Subpoenas. A subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum may be signed
  and issued by the chairman, a member of the board, referee or such other
  officer as may be designated by the chairman. A subpoena or  a  subpoena
  duces  tecum  may  also  be  signed  and  issued  by  any  attorney  and
  counsellor-at-law appearing before the board on behalf of a claimant  or
  other  party. A subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by
  civil practice law and rules.
2023 New York Laws › WKC - Workers' Compensation › Article 7 - Miscellaneous Provisions. › 120 - Discrimination Against Employees.

§  120. Discrimination against employees. It shall be unlawful for any
  employer or his or her duly authorized agent to  discharge  or  fail  to
  reinstate pursuant to section two hundred three-b of this chapter, or in
  any  other  manner  discriminate  against  an  employee as to his or her
  employment because such employee  has  claimed  or  attempted  to  claim
  compensation  from  such  employer,  requested a claim form for injuries
  received in the course of employment, or claimed or attempted  to  claim
  any  benefits  provided  under  this  chapter  or  because he or she has
  testified or is about to testify in a proceeding under this chapter  and
  no other valid reason is shown to exist for such action by the employer.
Any  complaint  alleging such an unlawful discriminatory practice must
  be filed within two years of  the  commission  of  such  practice.  Upon
  finding that an employer has violated this section, the board shall make
  an order that any employee so discriminated against shall be restored to
  employment or otherwise restored to the position or privileges he or she
  would  have  had  but for the discrimination and shall be compensated by
  his or her employer for any loss of compensation  arising  out  of  such
  discrimination  together  with  such  fees  or  allowances  for services
  rendered by an attorney or  licensed  representative  as  fixed  by  the
  board.  Any  employer  who  violates  this  section shall be liable to a
  penalty of not less than one hundred dollars or more than  five  hundred
  dollars,  as may be determined by the board. All such penalties shall be
  paid into the state treasury. All penalties, compensation  and  fees  or
  allowances  shall be paid solely by the employer. The employer alone and
  not his or her carrier shall be liable for such penalties and  payments.
  Any provision in an insurance policy undertaking to relieve the employer
  from liability for such penalties and payments shall be void.
An employer found to be in violation of this section and the aggrieved
  employee  must  report  to  the board as to the manner of the employer's
  compliance within thirty days of receipt of a  final  determination.  In
  case  of  failure  to report on compliance, or failure to comply with an
  order or penalty of the board within thirty  days  after  the  order  or
  notice  of  penalty  is  served,  except where timely application to the
  board for a modification, rescission or review of such order or  penalty
  has  been filed under section twenty-three of this chapter, the chair in
  any such case or, on the chair's consent,  any  party  may  enforce  the
  order or penalty in a like manner as an award of compensation.