Occupational Disability definition

Occupational Disability means disability due to occupational causes, including but not limited to injury or disease. The presumption of contracting disease "while on active duty as a result of strain or the inhalation of noxious fumes, poisons or gases" created by KRS 79.080 shall be a presumption of "occupational disability" hereunder;

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Occupational Disability means being permanently unable, due to injury or illness, to perform the functions of any occupation that the Insured could reasonably be expected to follow taking into account the Insured’s level of education, experience and employment history.

Occupational Disability means a form of disability where a person's impaired ability to earn an income or meet the obligations under a credit agreement arises from a physical or mental impairment which renders the person unable to continue his/her employment, own or similar occupation, profession or trade;

Examples of Occupational Disability in a sentence

• The time pool may also be used by members for medical appointments related to on-the-job injuries/illnesses once the Occupational Disability Leave (ODL) benefit has been exhausted, provided that the PBA may implement a per member and/or per year cap on the time pool being used as an ODL supplement and is responsible for tracking any established limits.

• This does not apply to members who became ill before 1 January 2004 and to whom the Occupational Disability Insurance Act (and underlying laws and regulations) applies and continues to apply.

• The time pool may also be used by members for medical appointments related to on- the-job injuries/illnesses once the Occupational Disability Leave (ODL) benefit has been exhausted, provided that the PBA may implement a per member and/or per year cap on the time pool being used as an ODL supplement and is responsible for tracking any established limits.

• Bargaining unit employees are eligible for Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Occupational Disability Leave benefits under the same terms and conditions as the City’s Administrative Officers, which may be amended from time to time.

• An employee who, through no negligence on his/her part, sustains an injury or incurs an illness which arises out of and in the course of employment by the City of Deerfield Beach and under the Workers’ Compensation laws of the State of Florida and requires absence from work shall be eligible for Occupational Disability Leave and compensation in accordance with Florida Statutes Chapter 440.

More Definitions of Occupational Disability

Occupational Disability means a disability resulting in an incapacity to perform assigned duties and expected, with reasonable medical probability, to exist for at least one year.

Occupational Disability means an illness, injury or disease that was caused by your employment and which is not excluded by the Plan.

Occupational Disability means a physical or mental condition that, in the judgment of the administrator, presumably permanently prevents an employee from satisfactorily performing the employee's usual duties for an employer or the duties of another comparable position or job that an employer makes available and for which the employee is qualified by training or education; however, the proximate cause of the condition must be a bodily injury sustained, or a hazard undergone, while in the performance and within the scope of the employee's duties and not the proximate result of the willful negligence of the employee.

Occupational Disability means disability due to occupational causes,

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Occupational Disability means an illness, injury, accident or condition of either a physical or psychological nature as a result of which you are unable to perform substantially the duties and responsibilities of your position for 180 days during a period of 365 consecutive calendar days.

Occupational Disability means disability from a sudden and unexpected injury or disease that results solely from a specific act or occurrence determinable by a definite time and place and solely from an extremely dangerous risk of severe physical or mental trauma or disease that is not common to the public at large and that is peculiar to and inherent in a dangerous duty that arises from the nature and in the course of a person ’s state employment.