61 - Death or disability due to disease or malfunction of heart or coronary arteries; claims and procedures.

§ 61. Death  or  disability  due to disease or malfunction of heart or  coronary arteries; claims and procedures. 1. A claim  for  benefits  for  the  death  or disability of a volunteer ambulance worker due to disease  or malfunction of the heart or of one or more coronary arteries filed in  accordance with section forty-one of this article, shall not  be  denied  provided  the  claimant  introduces  evidence  which  establishes that a  volunteer ambulance worker suffered disease or malfunction of the  heart  or  of  one  or  more  coronary arteries which caused the disablement or  death of the volunteer  ambulance  worker,  and  that  such  disease  or  malfunction  resulted  from  the  duties  and  activities  in  which the  volunteer ambulance worker was engaged as set forth in section  five  of  this chapter for which benefits shall be paid, unless it can be shown by  substantial  evidence  to the contrary that the duties and activities of  the volunteer ambulance worker in which the volunteer  ambulance  worker  was  engaged at the time of such disease or malfunction did not cause or  precipitate such disease or malfunction; and further provided  that  the  injury  did  not  result  solely  from the intoxication of the volunteer  ambulance worker while acting in line of duty or was not  occasioned  by  the  wilful  intention  of the volunteer ambulance worker to bring about  the injury or death of himself or another.    2. The chairman of the workers' compensation  board  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations providing a priority for controverted claims for  benefits filed as provided in subdivision  one  of  this  section.  Such  rules  and regulations shall also prescribe a form to be used for making  claims for such benefits.  Such  form  shall  specifically  request  the  information necessary in order to receive an award of benefits.    3.  This  section  shall not be construed to repeal by implication any  existing provision of law.