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N.Y. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law § 9: Temporary total disability benefits

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  1. Volunteer Ambulance Workers' Benefit Law
  2. Article 2. Coverage and Benefits

§ 9. Temporary total disability benefits. In the case of temporary

total disability the volunteer ambulance worker shall be paid three

hundred dollars for each week during the continuance thereof; provided,

however, that when the volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line

of duty on or after the effective date of this chapter to June

thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety; further provided, that when the

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

July first, nineteen hundred ninety to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred

ninety-one, said ambulance worker shall receive three hundred forty

dollars per week during the continuance thereof, and further provided,

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

or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-one to June thirtieth,

nineteen hundred ninety-two, said ambulance worker shall receive three

hundred fifty dollars per week during the continuance thereof; provided

further that when a volunteer ambulance worker is injured in the line of

duty on or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-two to June

thirtieth, two thousand twenty-one, such ambulance worker shall be paid

four hundred dollars for each week during the continuance thereof;

provided further that when a volunteer ambulance worker is injured in

the line of duty on or after July first, two thousand twenty-one such

ambulance worker shall be paid six hundred fifty dollars for each week

during the continuance thereof. Temporary total disability, within the

meaning of this section, shall exist only if the earning capacity of the

volunteer ambulance worker has been lost temporarily and totally as the

result of the injury. In case of temporary total disability and

permanent partial disability both resulting from the same injury, if the

temporary total disability continues for a longer period than the number

of weeks set forth in the following schedule, the period of temporary

total disability in excess of such number of weeks shall be added to the

period provided in section ten of this chapter: arm, thirty-two weeks;

leg, forty weeks; hand, thirty-two weeks; foot, thirty-two weeks; ear,

twenty-five weeks; eye, twenty weeks; thumb, twenty-four weeks; first

finger, eighteen weeks; great toe, twelve weeks; second finger, twelve

weeks; third finger, eight weeks, fourth finger, eight weeks; toe other

than great toe, eight weeks. In any case resulting in loss or partial

loss of use of arm, leg, hand, foot, ear, eye, thumb, finger or toe,

where the temporary total disability does not extend beyond the periods

above mentioned for such injury, benefits shall be limited to the

schedule contained in section ten of this chapter.

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