Section 100. Insurance against liability to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers


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  • Insurance contracts issued  by  the  state  insurance
      fund  to  insure political subdivisions against liability in relation to
      volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers   under   the
      volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers'
      benefit  law  shall  be  designated  "volunteer  firefighters'   benefit
      insurance"  or  "volunteer  ambulance  workers'  benefit insurance". The
      provisions of this article which are not  inconsistent  with  such  laws
      shall  be  applicable in relation to such insurance. The following terms
      used  in  this  article,  unless   inconsistent   with   the   volunteer
      firefighters'  benefit  law  or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit
      law, are hereby enlarged as follows:
        1. "Employer" includes any political subdivision liable  for  benefits
      pursuant  to  the  volunteer  firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer
      ambulance workers' benefit law.
        2. "Employee" includes a volunteer firefighter or volunteer  ambulance
      worker  who  has been or might be injured in line of duty or who dies or
      might die from such  an  injury.  When  a  political  subdivision  or  a
      district  or  area  thereof  is  responsible for the payment of benefits
      pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer
      ambulance  workers'  benefit  law,  it shall be deemed the "employer" of
      such "employee."
        3. "Workers' compensation" and "compensation" include the benefits  in
      relation  to  volunteer  firefighters  or  volunteer  ambulance  workers
      pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit  law  or  the  volunteer
      ambulance workers' benefit law.
        4. "This chapter" includes the volunteer firefighters' benefit law and
      the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, except when such a meaning
      is inconsistent with this article.