Vermont § 601 - Definitions As used in this chapter:

§ 601. Definitions As used in this chapter:

• (1) “Brother” and “sister” includes a stepbrother and stepsister, half-brother and half-sister,
  and a brother and sister by adoption, but does not include a married brother or a
  married sister unless dependent. (2) “Child” includes a stepchild, adopted child, posthumous child, grandchild, and a child
  for whom parentage has been established pursuant to 15 V.S.A. chapter 5 but does not include a married child unless the child is a dependent. (3) “Employer” includes any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, public or private,
  and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and includes the owner or lessee
  of premises or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business
  there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for
  any other reason, is not the direct employer of the workers there employed. If the
  employer is insured, “employer” includes the employer’s insurer so far as applicable.
  A person is not deemed to be an “employer” for the purposes of this chapter as the
  result of entering into a contract for services or labor with an individual who has
  knowingly and voluntarily waived coverage of this chapter pursuant to subdivision
  (14)(F) of this section. (4) “Employment” includes public employment and, in the case of private employers, includes
  all employment in any trade or occupation notwithstanding that an employer may be
  a nonprofit corporation, institution, association, partnership, or proprietorship. (5) “Grandchild” includes a child of an adopted child and a child of a stepchild, but
  does not include a stepchild of a child, a stepchild of a stepchild, a stepchild of
  an adopted child, or a married grandchild unless dependent. (6) “Grandparent” includes a parent of a parent by adoption but does not include a parent
  of a stepparent, a stepparent of a parent, or a stepparent of a stepparent. (7) “Injury” and “personal injury” includes occupational diseases, death resulting from
  injury within two years, and includes injury to and cost of acquiring and replacement
  of prosthetic devices, hearing aids, and eye glasses. (8) “Insurance carrier” includes any corporation from which an employer has obtained workers’
  compensation insurance or guaranty insurance in accordance with the provisions of
  this chapter. (9) “Parent” includes a stepparent and a parent by adoption. (10) “Partial disability” may be held to include diminished ability to obtain employment
  owing to disfigurement resulting from an injury. (11) “Personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment” includes
  an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee
  because of that employment. (A) In the case of constables, chiefs of police, police officers, rescue or ambulance
  workers, and volunteer reserve police officers in any city, town, or incorporated
  village, disability or death from a heart injury or heart disease incurred or aggravated
  and proximately caused by service in the line of duty and that becomes symptomatic
  within 72 hours from the date of last service in the line of duty shall be presumed
  to be incurred in the line of duty. (B) In the case of firefighters, as defined in 20 V.S.A. § 3151(3) and (4), disability or death from heart injury or heart disease that becomes symptomatic
  within 72 hours of service in the line of duty shall be presumed to be compensable. (C) “Line of duty” as applied to firefighters and rescue and ambulance workers means one
  or more of the following: