Legal characteristics of the excess in an occupational disease

Abstract

The excess in an occupational disease is regulated in Art. 56, para. 3 of the Social Security Code (SSC). Its specificity is associated with the occurrence of complications in the health status of the insured person or the manifestation of late consequences of the disease. The legislative reason in the construction of the legal framework for the excess in case of an occupational disease takes into account its peculiarities as an insured social risk, as well as the fact that it constitutes a morbid and not a traumatic impairment of the insured person’s health. A characteristic feature of occupational diseases is that they go through certain stages of their development that are associated with the manifestation of more severe symptoms and the occurrence of complications, while the harmful effects on the insured person’s health can be manifested at a later stage of its development. The said conditions also relate to occupational diseases and this article will try to analyze them as well.