ALBANY – Many more volunteers who rushed to “the pile”—the ruins of the World Trade Center—after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks may now be eligible for medical compensation, thanks to a state appeals court decision.
A unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, Third Department, ruled Thursday in Matter of Hazan, 517129, that the state Workers’ Compensation Board improperly limited its definition of post-9/11 “volunteer” first responders only to those “serving under the direction of an authorized rescue entity or volunteer agency.”
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