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Indiana Code Title 36. Local Government § 36-8-12-7

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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).

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