N.Y. Employers' Liability Law § 7: Existing rights of action continued

§ 7. Existing rights of action continued. Every right of action

existing on the seventeenth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine,

for negligence or to recover damages for injuries resulting in death is

continued and nothing in this article contained shall be construed as

limiting any such right of action, nor shall the failure to give the

notice provided for in section three of this article be a bar to the

maintenance of a suit upon any such existing right of action.