2017 New York Laws
WKC - Workers' Compensation
Article 9 - Disability Benefits
208 - Payment of Disability and Family Leave Benefits.

  208.  Payment  of disability and family leave benefits. 1. Benefits
  provided under this article shall be paid periodically and promptly and,
  except as to a contested period of disability or family  leave,  without
  any  decision by the board, or designee of the chair pursuant to section
  two hundred twenty-one of this article. The first  payment  of  benefits
  shall  be  due  on  the fourteenth day of disability or family leave and
  benefits for that period shall be paid directly to the  employee  within
  four  business  days  thereafter  or within four business days after the
  filing of required proof of  claim,  whichever  is  the  later.  If  the
  employer  or carrier rejects an initial claim for family leave benefits,
  the employer or carrier must notify the employee in a manner  prescribed
  by  the  chair  within  eighteen  days  of filing of the proof of claim.
  Failure to timely reject shall constitute a waiver of objection  to  the
  family  leave  claim.  Thereafter  benefits  shall  be  due  and payable
  bi-weekly in like manner. The chair or  chair's  designee,  pursuant  to
  section  two  hundred  twenty-one  of  this  article, may determine that
  benefits may be paid monthly or semi-monthly if wages were so paid,  and
  may  authorize  deviation  from the foregoing requirements to facilitate
  prompt payment of benefits. Any inquiry which  requires  the  employee's
  response in order to continue benefits uninterrupted or unmodified shall
  provide a reasonable time period in which to respond and include a clear
  and  prominent statement of the deadline for responding and consequences
  of failing to respond.
2. The chair and superintendent of financial  services  may,  whenever
  such  information  is  deemed  necessary, require any carrier to file in
  form prescribed by the chair a report or reports  as  to  any  claim  or
  claims,  including  (but  without  limitation) dates of commencement and
  termination of benefit payments and amount of benefits paid  under  this
  article.  The  chair  and  superintendent of financial services may also
  require annually information in respect to  the  aggregate  of  benefits
  paid,  the number of claims allowed and disallowed, the average benefits
  and duration of benefit periods, the amount of payrolls covered and such
  other information as the chair may deem necessary for  the  purposes  of
  administering  this  article.  If  the  carrier is providing benefits in
  respect to more than one  employer,  the  chair  and  superintendent  of
  financial services may require that such information be shown separately
  as  to  those  employers  who  are  providing  only  benefits  that  are
  substantially the same as the benefits required  in  this  article.  The
  chair  and superintendent of financial services may prescribe the format
  of such  report  and  may  promulgate  regulations  to  effectuate  this
  article.