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Terms Used In N.Y. Workers Compensation Law 237

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

If an employer has made advance payments of benefits or has made payments to an employee in like manner as wages during any period of disability or family leave for which such employee is entitled to the benefits provided by this article, he or she shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the carrier out of any benefits due or to become due for the existing disability or family leave, if the claim for reimbursement is filed with the carrier prior to payment of the benefits by the carrier.