2016 New York Laws
VAW - Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit
Article 4 - (Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit) PROCEDURE
41 - Claim for benefits.

 41. Claim  for  benefits.  The  right  to  claim benefits under this
  chapter shall be barred, except as hereinafter provided,  unless  within
  two  years  after the injury, or, if death results therefrom, within two
  years after such death, a claim for  the  benefits  under  this  chapter
  shall  be filed with the chairman of the workers' compensation board and
  a copy of such claim shall be filed with the  same  officer  to  whom  a
  notice  of injury must be given under section forty of this article. The
  right of a  volunteer  ambulance  worker  or  his  dependents  to  claim
  benefits  under  this  chapter for disablement or death, as the case may
  be, caused by disease  shall  not  be  barred  by  the  failure  of  the
  volunteer  ambulance  worker  or  his  dependents to file a claim within
  either such period of two years, provided  such  claim  shall  be  filed
  after  either  such  period  of  two  years and within ninety days after
  disablement or ninety days after knowledge that the disease  is  or  was
  due  to  service as a volunteer ambulance worker, whichever is the later
  date. The claim shall be in substantially the same form and  shall  give
  substantially the same information as is required to be given in a claim
  under   the   provisions   of   section  twenty-eight  of  the  workers'
  compensation law. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  law,  any
  such  claim  need  not be sworn to, verified or acknowledged. No case in
  which an advance payment is made to a volunteer ambulance worker  or  to
  his  dependents  in  case of death shall be barred by the failure of the
  volunteer ambulance worker or his dependents to file a  claim,  and  the
  workers'  compensation board may at any time order a hearing on any such
  case in the same manner as though a claim for benefits had been filed.
The date of injury caused by disease shall be the date of  contracture
  of  such disease as determined by the workers' compensation board on the
  hearing of the claim and the responsibility of the political subdivision
  liable for the payment of benefits and its insurance  carrier  shall  be
  fixed by the date of injury as so determined.