N.Y. Workers’ Compensation Law 234 – Disclosures prohibited
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§ 234. Disclosures prohibited. Information as required by any carrier, or its officers or employees, from employers or employees or others pursuant to this article shall not be opened to public inspection or used for any purpose other than the determination of claims under and complying with the provisions of this article; and any carrier, or officer or employee of a carrier who, except with the authority of the chairman or pursuant to his regulations, or as otherwise provided by law, shall disclose the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Terms Used In N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 234
- Carrier: shall include : the state fund, stock corporations, mutual corporations and reciprocal insurers which insure the payment of benefits provided pursuant to this article; and employers and associations of employers or of employees and trustees authorized or permitted to pay benefits under the provisions of this article. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
- Chairman: means the chairman of the workers' compensation board of the state of New York. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
- Employee: means a person engaged in the service of an employer in any employment defined in subdivision six of this section, except a minor child of the employer, except a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister, priest or rabbi, a sexton, a christian science reader, or member of a religious order, or an executive officer of a corporation who at all times during the period involved owns all of the issued and outstanding stock of the corporation and holds all of the offices pursuant to paragraph (e) of § 715 of the business corporation law or two executive officers of a corporation who at all times during the period involved between them own all of the issued and outstanding stock of such corporation and hold all such offices provided, however, that each officer must own at least one share of stock, except as provided in section two hundred twelve of this article, or an executive officer of an incorporated religious, charitable or educational institution, or persons engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution, or volunteers in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution, or persons participating in and receiving rehabilitative services in a sheltered workshop operated by a religious, charitable or educational institution under a certificate issued by the United States department of labor, or recipients of charitable aid from a religious or charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution which is incidental to or in return for the aid conferred, and not under an express contract of hire. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201