Assembly Bill A1718

2015-2016 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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2015-A1718 (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
2013-2014: A1150
2017-2018: A2905
2019-2020: A267
2021-2022: A566

2015-A1718 (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.

2015-A1718 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1718

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- 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-
dents, [or] by a person on their behalf, OR BY A CLAIM ASSISTANT.    The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06174-01-5
              

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