N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 167: Claims of volunteers

§ 167. Claims of volunteers. For persons who participated in World

Trade Center rescue, recovery and clean-up operations as volunteers, the

uninsured employers' fund shall be deemed to be the employer for the

purposes of administering and paying claims pursuant to this article.

Benefits under this chapter shall be payable to such volunteers in the

first instance and to the extent that funds are available out of funds

appropriated to the United States Department of Labor under Public Law

109-148 to reimburse the uninsured employer's fund for the payment of

such benefits and thereafter from the uninsured employers' fund. The

uninsured employers' fund may pay for volunteers' medical treatment

notwithstanding such medical expenses having been denied by the World

Trade Center Health Organization.