N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law § 58: Payment of compensation to persons providing housekeeping or nursing services

§ 58. Payment of compensation to persons providing housekeeping or

nursing services. An employer under the workmen's compensation law, or

the insurance carrier under the policy of workmen's compensation

insurance covering such employer, or any other person or organization

including the state, a municipal corporation or other political

subdivision of the state which provides housekeeping, or nursing

services to an injured employee or recipient of social services

assistance or which arranges for such services by authorizing the hiring

of an employee for such purposes and which supplies funds for the

payment of such employee's wages, notwithstanding any general or special

statute requiring or authorizing such housekeeping or nursing services,

shall be liable for the payment of compensation to the person performing

such housekeeping or nursing services as provided by this chapter.

Nothing in this section shall create an employer-employee relationship

when such relationship does not otherwise exist.