N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 8: Permanent total disability benefits

§ 8. Permanent total disability benefits. In the case of total

disability adjudged to be permanent the volunteer ambulance worker shall

be paid six hundred dollars for each week during the continuance

thereof. Permanent total disability, within the meaning of this section,

shall exist only if the earning capacity of the volunteer ambulance

worker has been lost permanently and totally as the result of the

injury. The loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both

legs, or both eyes, or any two thereof, shall, in the absence of

conclusive proof to the contrary, constitute permanent total disability,

but in all other cases permanent total disability shall be determined in

accordance with the facts. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this

chapter, an injured volunteer ambulance worker disabled due to the loss

or total loss of use of both eyes, or both hands, or both arms, or both

feet, or both legs, or any two thereof shall not suffer any diminution

of such weekly benefit by engaging in business or employment provided

his or her weekly earnings or wages, when combined with his weekly

benefit shall not be in excess of eight hundred dollars; and further

provided that the application of this section shall not result in

reduction of benefits which an injured volunteer ambulance worker who is

disabled due to the loss or total loss of use of both eyes, or both

hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or any two thereof

would otherwise be entitled to under any other provisions of this

article.