2010 New York Code
WKC - Workers' Compensation
Article 6 - (76 - 100) 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.