N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 214-i*2: Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to toxic burn pits

* § 214-i. Action to recover damages for personal injury caused by

contact with or exposure to toxic burn pits. 1. Notwithstanding any

provision of law to the contrary, an action to recover damages for

personal injury caused by exposure to toxic burn pits while serving as a

member of the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan, Bahrain,

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Diego Garcia, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia,

Gabon, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mali,

Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia,

South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab

Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen on or after August second, nineteen

hundred ninety, may be commenced within three years from the date of the

discovery of such injury, or within three years from the date when

through the exercise of reasonable diligence the cause of such injury

should have been discovered, whichever is later.

2. For the purposes of this section, a personal injury includes, but

shall not be limited to the following diseases: asthma that was

diagnosed after service in a country or territory listed, cancer of any

type, chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,

constrictive bronchiolitis or obliterative bronchiolitis, emphysema,

granulomatous disease, interstitial lung disease, lymphoma, pleuritis,

pulmonary fibrosis, and sarcoidosis.

* NB There are 2 § 214-i's