N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 18: Disposition of accrued benefits upon death

§ 18. Disposition of accrued benefits upon death. Except as otherwise

provided in section ten of this article, in the case of the death of an

injured volunteer ambulance worker to whom there was due at the time of

his death any benefits under the provisions of this chapter, the amount

of such benefits shall be payable to the surviving spouse, if there be

one, or, if none, to the surviving child or children of the deceased

under the age of eighteen years, and if there be no surviving spouse or

children, then to the dependents of such deceased or to any of them as

the workers' compensation board may direct, and if there be no surviving

spouse, children or dependents of such deceased, then to his estate. An

award for disability may be made after the death of an injured volunteer

ambulance worker.