N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 11: Temporary partial disability benefits

§ 11. Temporary partial disability benefits. In the case of temporary

partial disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid for each

week during the continuance thereof, as follows:

1. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is seventy-five per

centum, or greater, he or she shall be paid one hundred fifty dollars

for each week, provided, however, that the volunteer ambulance worker is

injured in the line of duty on or after the effective date of this

chapter to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety,

provided, however, that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured

in the line of duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety to

and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-one, such payment

shall be two hundred eighty dollars for each week, provided, however,

that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty

on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and including

June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall be three

hundred fifty dollars for each week; and provided further that when the

volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after

July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two such payments shall be four

hundred dollars for each week.

2. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is fifty per centum,

or greater, but less than seventy-five per centum, he or she shall be

paid one hundred dollars for each week, provided, however, that the

volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after

the effective date of this chapter to and including June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred ninety, provided, however, that when the volunteer

ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after July first,

nineteen hundred ninety to and including June thirtieth, nineteen

hundred ninety-one, such payment shall be one hundred eighty-six dollars

and seventy-six cents for each week, provided, however, that when the

volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty on or after

July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to and including June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall be two hundred

thirty-four dollars and fifty cents for each week; provided, however,

that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of duty

on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two, such payment shall

be two hundred sixty-eight dollars for each week.

3. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is twenty-five per

centum, or greater, but less than fifty per centum, he or she shall be

paid thirty dollars for each week.

4. If the percentage of loss of earning capacity is less than

twenty-five per centum, he or she shall not be paid any weekly benefit.

Temporary partial disability, within the meaning of this section,

shall exist only if the earning capacity of the volunteer ambulance

worker has been temporarily and partially lost as the result of the

injury. The workers' compensation board shall determine the degree of

such disability and such board may reconsider such degree on its own

motion or upon application of any party in interest.