§ 36-8-12-7 — Insurance; disability and medical expense coverage

Each policy of insurance must provide for
payment to a member of a volunteer fire department, for accidental
injury or smoke inhalation caused by or occurring in the course of the
performance of the duties of a volunteer firefighter or member of the
emergency medical services personnel and for a cardiac disease event
proximately caused within forty-eight (48) hours by or occurring in the
course of the performance of the duties of a volunteer firefighter or
member of the emergency medical services personnel while in an
emergency situation, as follows:
(1) For total disability that prevents the member from pursuing
the member's usual vocation:
(A) after June 30, 2009, and before July 24, 2009, a weekly
indemnity of not less than two hundred sixty-two dollars
($262); and
(B) after July 23, 2009, a weekly indemnity of not less than two
hundred ninety dollars ($290);
up to a maximum of two hundred sixty (260) weeks. After July
23, 2009, the weekly indemnity may not be less than the Indiana
minimum wage computed on the basis of a forty (40) hour week.
(2) For medical expenses, coverage for incurred expenses.
However, the policy may not have medical expense limits of less
than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation:
19-1-40-8.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.64. Amended by
P.L.367-1983, SEC.1; P.L.348-1985, SEC.1; P.L.229-1996, SEC.3;
P.L.1-1999, SEC.93; P.L.192-1999, SEC.2; P.L.174-2009,
SEC.4.