100 - Insurance against liability to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers. - New York Statutes

§ 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.