Verification of Illness Written verification by an approved licensed medical practitioner or other satisfactory proof of illness or family illness may be required at the discretion of the department head.
Definition of Total Disability Total disability means that the employee is unable, because of sickness or accident, to perform the duties of their regular occupation. This definition applies for the first twenty-four (24) months of payments. After this time, the inability to perform an occupation for which the employee is reasonably fitted by training, education or experience will constitute total disability. It is not required that an employee be confined to home, but they must be under the regular care of a physician.
Recurrence of Disability If you become disabled for the same or a related reason within thirteen (13) weeks following your return to full-time permanent work after a short-term disability, the second disability period will be considered a continuation of the first. Benefits would then resume as if you had not returned to work. If the new disability is not related to the first, and provided that you have returned to full-time permanent work for at least four (4) weeks, you will begin a new benefit period, and the Basic Benefit period will be reinstated.