New York A 4812: Provides for health insurance coverage for loss or damage to prosthetic limb

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A04812 Summary:

BILL NOA04812 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORO'Pharrow

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§13-a & 21-a, Work Comp L

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Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.

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BILL NOA04812 

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02/06/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4812

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 6, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. O'PHARROW -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the treat-
 ment by a medical provider for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act."
 3 § 2. Section 13-a of the workers' compensation law is amended by
 4 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 5 (8) (a) It shall be presumed that treatment rendered by a medical
 6 provider for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 was done so on an emergent
 7 basis so as not to require prior authorization pursuant to subdivision
 8 five of this section.
 9 (b) Medical providers treating patients for the novel coronavirus,
 10 COVID-19 need not be authorized by the chair pursuant to subdivision one
 11 of this section.
 12 § 3. Section 21-a of the workers' compensation law, as added by chap-
 13 ter 635 of the laws of 1996, subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 as amended by chap-
 14 ter 6 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
 15 § 21-a. Temporary payment of compensation. 1. Notwithstanding any
 16 other provision of this chapter to the contrary, in any instance in
 17 which an employer is unsure of the extent of its liability for a claim
 18 for compensation by an injured employee pursuant to this chapter, such
 19 employer may initiate compensation payments and payments for prescribed
 20 medicine and continue such payments for [one year] sixty days, without
 21 prejudice and without admitting liability, in accordance with a notice
 22 of temporary payment of compensation at the temporary total disability
 23 rate, on a form prescribed by the board.
 24 2. The notice of temporary payment of compensation authorized by
 25 subdivision one of this section shall be delivered to the injured

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08807-01-5

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 1 employee and the board. Such notice shall notify the injured employee
 2 that the temporary payment of compensation and prescribed medicine shall
 3 not be deemed to be an admission of liability by the employer for the
 4 injury or injuries to the employee. The board, upon receipt of a notice
 5 of temporary payment of compensation, shall send a notice to the injured
 6 employee in sixteen point type stating that:
 7 (a) the board has received a notice of temporary payment of compen-
 8 sation relating to such injured employee;
 9 (b) the payment of temporary compensation and prescribed medicine and
 10 the injured employee's acceptance of such temporary compensation and
 11 prescribed medicine shall not be an admission of liability by the
 12 employer, nor prejudice the claim of the injured employee; and
 13 (c) the payment of temporary compensation and prescribed medicine
 14 shall terminate on the elapse of: [one year] sixty days, or the employ-
 15 er's contesting of the injured employee's claim for compensation and
 16 prescribed medicine, or the board determination of the injured employ-
 17 ee's claim, w