§ 36-8-4.3-2 — Payment of line of duty health care expenses of police and firefighters

Indiana § 36-8-4.3-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 36: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Art. 8: PUBLIC SAFETY
• Ch. 4.3: Police and Fire Employment Policies in Special Service

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(a) A special service district shall pay for the
care of:
(1) a full-time, paid police officer who:
(A) suffers an injury; or
(B) contracts an illness;
during the performance of the officer's duty; or
(2) a full-time, paid firefighter who:
(A) suffers an injury; or
(B) contracts an illness;
during the performance of the firefighter's duty.
(b) The special service district shall pay for the following expenses
incurred by a police officer or firefighter described in subsection (a):
(1) Medical and surgical care.
(2) Medicines and laboratory, curative, and palliative agents and
means.
(3) X-ray, diagnostic, and therapeutic service, including during
the recovery period.
(4) Hospital and special nursing care if the physician or surgeon
in charge considers it necessary for proper recovery.
(c) Expenditures required by subsection (a) shall be paid from the
general fund of the special service district.
(d) A special service district that has paid for the care of a police
officer or firefighter under subsection (a) has a cause of action for
reimbursement of the amount paid under subsection (a) against any
third party against whom the police officer or firefighter has a cause of
action for an injury sustained because of, or an illness caused by, the
third party. The special service district's cause of action under this
subsection is in addition to, and not in lieu of, the cause of action of the
police officer or firefighter against the third party.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.150-2002, SEC.1.