2016 New York Laws
WKC - Workers' Compensation
Article 8-A - (Workers' Compensation) WORLD TRADE CENTER RESCUE, RECOVERY AND CLEAN-UP OPERATIONS
167 - Claims of volunteers.

  167.  Claims  of  volunteers. For persons who participated in World
  Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations as volunteers, the
  uninsured employers' fund shall be deemed to be  the  employer  for  the
  purposes  of  administering  and paying claims pursuant to this article.
  Benefits under this chapter shall be payable to such volunteers  in  the
  first  instance  and to the extent that funds are available out of funds
  appropriated to the United States Department of Labor under  Public  Law
  109-148  to  reimburse  the uninsured employer's fund for the payment of
  such benefits and thereafter from the  uninsured  employers'  fund.  The
  uninsured  employers'  fund  may  pay  for volunteers' medical treatment
  notwithstanding such medical expenses having been denied  by  the  World
  Trade Center Health Organization.