On August 14, 2006, Workers’ Compensation Law (WCL) Article 8-A was enacted to expand the time for a “participant” in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and/or clean-up operations who suffers, or may suffer in the future, from a “qualifying condition” to file a claim for workers’ compensation lost wage and medical benefits and to permit the Board to reopen such claims previously denied as untimely.
In order to qualify as a participant in the rescue, recovery or clean up effort you must be able to provide satisfactory evidence to the Board that you where an employee who within the course of employment, or volunteer and that you:

      Participated in the rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations at the World Trade
      Center site between September 11, 2001 and September 12, 2002, or

     Worked at the Fresh Kills Land Fill in New York City between September 11,  

     2001and September 12, 2002, or

     Worked at the New York City morgue or the temporary morgue on pier locations
     on the west side of Manhattan between September 11, 2001 and September 12,
     2002, or

    Worked on the barges between the west side of Manhattan and the Fresh Kills 

    LandFill in New York City between September 11, 2001 and September 12, 

    2002.

“World Trade Center site” is defined as “anywhere below a line starting from the Hudson River and Canal Street; east on Canal Street to Pike Street; south on Pike Street to the East River; and extending to the lower tip of Manhattan.”
A “qualifying condition” is defined as “any latent disease or condition resulting from a hazardous exposure duringparticipation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or clean-up operations.”
In order for the claim of a participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations to come within the application of Article 8-A of the Workers’ Compensation Law, the participant is required to register with the Workers’ Compensation Board (“Board”) within the period August 14, 2006 to August 14, 2008.

Click on this link to download a complete list of instructions and the WTC 12 form you must file by August 14, 2008

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