S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8466
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
July 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to permitting
payments 14 days after the due date
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 25 of the work-
ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) If the employer or insurance carrier shall fail to pay any
installments of compensation within [twenty-five] FOURTEEN days after
the same become due, there shall be paid by the employer or, if insured,
its insurance carrier, an additional amount of twenty percent of the
compensation then due which shall accrue for the benefit of the injured
worker or his or her dependents and shall be paid to him or her or them
with the compensation, unless such delay or default is excused by the
board upon the application of the employer or insurance carrier upon the
ground that owing to conditions over which the employer or insurance
carrier had no control, such payment could not be made. The employer in
each such instance shall also be assessed the sum of three hundred
dollars, which shall be paid to the claimant.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03993-01-9