19-C - Actions against health services personnel; defense and indemnification.

§  19-c.  Actions  against  health  services  personnel;  defense  and  indemnification. The provisions  of  section  seventeen  of  the  public  officers law shall apply to actions and proceedings, against physicians,  nurses  and  other  employees  of the board whose duties involve medical  examinations under this chapter and the volunteer firemen's benefit  law  or  other  health  services,  arising out of emergency medical treatment  given to board employees while at work or to claimants, their attorneys,  licensed representatives, witnesses,  employers,  their  representatives  and representatives of carriers, while visiting the offices of the board  or  the  hearing  points at which proceedings are conducted or any other  person properly on board premises.