Bill Text: NY S03948 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to permitting payments 14 days after the due date.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S03948 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03948-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3948 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 25 of the work- 2 ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (e) If the employer or insurance carrier shall fail to pay any 5 installments of compensation within [twenty-five] fourteen days after 6 the same become due, there shall be paid by the employer or, if insured, 7 its insurance carrier, an additional amount of twenty percent of the 8 compensation then due which shall accrue for the benefit of the injured 9 worker or his or her dependents and shall be paid to him or her or them 10 with the compensation, unless such delay or default is excused by the 11 board upon the application of the employer or insurance carrier upon the 12 ground that owing to conditions over which the employer or insurance 13 carrier had no control, such payment could not be made. The employer in 14 each such instance shall also be assessed the sum of three hundred 15 dollars, which shall be paid to the claimant. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00079-01-1
