Sec. 7. Each policy of insurance must provide for payment to a member of a volunteer fire department, for accidental injury or smoke inhalation caused by or occurring in the course of the performance of the duties of a volunteer firefighter or member of the emergency medical services personnel and for a cardiac disease event proximately caused within forty-eight (48) hours by or occurring in the course of the performance of the duties of a volunteer firefighter or member of the emergency medical services personnel while in an emergency situation, as follows:

(1) For total disability that prevents the member from pursuing the member’s usual vocation:

(A) after June 30, 2009, and before July 24, 2009, a weekly indemnity of not less than two hundred sixty-two dollars ($262); and

(B) after July 23, 2009, a weekly indemnity of not less than two hundred ninety dollars ($290);

up to a maximum of two hundred sixty (260) weeks. After July 23, 2009, the weekly indemnity may not be less than the Indiana minimum wage computed on the basis of a forty (40) hour week.

(2) For medical expenses, coverage for incurred expenses. However, the policy may not have medical expense limits of less than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 19-1-40-8.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.64. Amended by P.L.367-1983, SEC.1; P.L.348-1985, SEC.1; P.L.229-1996, SEC.3; P.L.1-1999, SEC.93; P.L.192-1999, SEC.2; P.L.174-2009, SEC.4.