N.Y. Volunteer Firefighters’ Benefit Law § 13

§ 13. Reclassification of disabilities. Subject to the limitations in\nsection fifty-one of this chapter and in section one hundred\ntwenty-three of the workmen's compensation law as made applicable to\nthis chapter by section fifty-seven of this chapter, the workmen's\ncompensation board may at any time, without regard to the date of the\ninjury, upon its own motion, or on application of any party in interest,\nreclassify a disability upon proof that there has been a change in\ncondition, or that the previous classification was erroneous and not in\nthe interest of justice.\n