Sec. 7. 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.
Structure Indiana Code
Chapter 12. Volunteer Fire Departments
36-8-12-0.1. Application of Certain Amendments to Chapter
36-8-12-1. Application of Chapter
36-8-12-3. Agreements With Units; Authorization
36-8-12-4. Agreements With Units; Consideration
36-8-12-4.5. Agreements to Provide Services
36-8-12-5. Clothing and Automobile Allowances; Fees for Membership in Firefighters' Association
36-8-12-6. Units Required to Insure Members of Department; Liability for Failure to Insure
36-8-12-7. Insurance; Disability and Medical Expense Coverage
36-8-12-9. Insurance Premiums; Payment From General Fund
36-8-12-10.3. Volunteers; Worker's Compensation
36-8-12-10.7. Employees of Private Employers; Volunteer Firefighting or Volunteer Member Activity
36-8-12-10.9. Notice of Absence; Remuneration
36-8-12-11. Blue Lights on Private Vehicles; Authorization; Violations
36-8-12-12. Nonfire Emergency Activities; Duties of Fire Chief
36-8-12-15. Liability Limits; Punitive Damages
36-8-12-16. Schedule of Charges for Service; Conditions for Collection; Reports; Failure to Pay
36-8-12-17. False Alarm Service Charges
36-8-12-18. Confidential Information; Exceptions
36-8-12-19. Suspension or Termination of Ems Personnel; Right to Hearing and Appeal