Assembly Bill A1150

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Establishes a volunteer firefighters' benefit claim assistance unit to initiate contact with firefighter or surviving dependents and assist with claims

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1150 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Volunteer Firefighters' Benefit Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง40, Vol Ffs Ben L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A681
2011-2012: A181
2015-2016: A1718
2017-2018: A2905
2019-2020: A267
2021-2022: A566

2013-A1150 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a volunteer firefighters' benefit claim assistance unit to initiate contact with injured firefighter or his or her surviving dependents and assist with filing claims and expediting payments.

2013-A1150 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1150

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. CAHILL, GABRYSZAK -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation  to
  providing  for  temporary  payments  of benefit pending final determi-
  nation of claim

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 40 of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, as
amended by chapter 544 of the laws  of  1957,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  S 40.  [Notice] CLAIM ASSISTANCE UNIT; NOTICE of injury or death.  THE
WORKERS'  COMPENSATION  BOARD  SHALL ESTABLISH A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS'
BENEFIT CLAIM ASSISTANCE UNIT. SUCH UNIT SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE TO  INITI-
ATE CONTACT WITH ANY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER WHO SUSTAINS A LIFE THREATEN-
ING  INJURY,  OR  IN THE CASE OF DEATH, THE SURVIVING DEPENDENTS OF SUCH
VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AND SHALL PROVIDE ANY AND ALL ASSISTANCE  REQUIRED
TO  FILE  CLAIMS  AND EXPEDITE PAYMENT OF ANY AND ALL BENEFITS ALLOWABLE
UNDER THIS CHAPTER.
  Notice of an injury or death for which benefits  are  to  be  paid  or
provided  under this chapter shall be given to the political subdivision
liable for the payment thereof within ninety days after such  injury  or
death  except  that  such  notice  need not be given if a claim is filed
pursuant to section forty-one of this [chapter]  ARTICLE  within  ninety
days  after such injury or death. Either such notice may be given by any
person claiming to be entitled to such benefits [or], by someone in  his
OR HER behalf, OR BY A CLAIM ASSISTANT.  The notice shall be in writing,
shall contain the name and address of the volunteer [fireman] FIREFIGHT-
ER,  and state in ordinary language the time, place, nature and cause of
the injury and shall be signed by him OR HER or by a person  on  his  OR
HER behalf or, in case of death, by any one or more of his OR HER depen-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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