Terms Used In New York Laws > Workers' Compensation > Article 9 - Disability Benefits

• Benefits: means the money allowances during disability payable to an employee who is eligible to receive such benefits, as provided in this article. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Board: means the workers' compensation board created under this chapter. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• 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
• Child: means a biological, adopted, or foster son or daughter, a stepson or stepdaughter, a legal ward, a son or daughter of a domestic partner, or the person to whom the employee stands in loco parentis. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• day of disability: means any day on which the employee was prevented from performing work because of disability, including any day which the employee uses for family leave, and for which the employee has not received his or her regular remuneration. 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 section seven hundred fifteen 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
• employment: includes an employee's entire service performed within or both within and without this state if the service is localized in this state. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Family leave: shall mean any leave taken by an employee from work: (a) to participate in providing care, including physical or psychological care, for a family member of the employee made necessary by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond with the employee's child during the first twelve months after the child's birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the child for adoption or foster care with the employee; or (c) because of any qualifying exigency as interpreted under the family and medical leave act, 29 U. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Family member: means a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, spouse, or domestic partner as defined in this section. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Grandchild: means a child of the employee's child. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Grandparent: means a parent of the employee's parent. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Health care provider: shall mean for the purpose of family leave, a person licensed under article one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred thirty-two, one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one, one hundred forty-three, one hundred forty-four, one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine of the education law or a person licensed under the public health law, Article one hundred forty of the education law or Article one hundred sixty-three of the education law. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• media sales representative: shall include any contractor engaged in the sale or renewal of magazine subscriptions or the sale or renewal of magazine advertising space who (i) receives no direction or control on the methods by which they perform services other than training on product characteristics, (ii) are solely in control of their work schedule, and (iii) may refuse any work assignment. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• modeling services: means the appearance by a professional model in photographic sessions or the engagement of such model in live, filmed or taped modeling performances for remuneration. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Parent: means a biological, foster, or adoptive parent, a parent-in-law, a stepparent, a legal guardian, or other person who stood in loco parentis to the employee when the employee was a child. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• professional model: means a person who, in the course of his or her trade, occupation or profession, performs modeling services. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Serious health condition: means an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition, including transplantation preparation and recovery from surgery related to organ or tissue donation, that involves inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential health care facility, continuing treatment or continuing supervision by a health care provider. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Sibling: means a biological or adopted sibling, a half-sibling or stepsibling. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• State fund: means the state insurance fund created under article six of this chapter. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201
• Wages: means the money rate at which employment with a covered employer is recompensed under the contract of hiring with the covered employer and shall include the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging, or similar advantage received under the contract of hiring. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 201