N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 165: Reopening of disallowed claims

§ 165. Reopening of disallowed claims. The board, upon receiving a

statement duly filed as required under section one hundred sixty-two of

this article, from a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery

and clean-up operations for a qualifying condition that was disallowed

as barred by section eighteen or section twenty-eight of this chapter or

by section one hundred sixty-two of this article for failure to register

timely shall reopen and redetermine such claim in accordance with the

provisions of this article, provided that no such previously disallowed

claim for a qualifying condition shall be determined to have a date of

disablement that would bar the claim under section eighteen or section

twenty-eight of this chapter.