non-occupational disease definition

non-occupational disease means a disease which does not arise, and which is not caused or contributed to by, or as a consequence of, any disease which arises, out of or in the course of any employment or occupation for compensation or profit; however if evidence satisfactory to the Insurance Company is furnished that the individual concerned is covered as an employee under any workmen's compensation law, occupational disease law, or any other legislation of similar purpose, or under the maritime doctrine of maintenance, wages, and cure, but that the disease involved is one not covered under the applicable laws or doctrine, then such disease shall, for the purposes of this policy, be regarded as a "non-occupational disease".
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Related to non-occupational disease

  • Occupational disease means a disease contracted in the course of employment, which by its causes and the characteristics of its manifestation or the condition of the employment results in a hazard which distinguishes the employment in character from employment generally, and the employment creates a risk of contracting the disease in greater degree and in a different manner from the public in general.

  • Practice of occupational therapy means the therapeutic use of occupations for habilitation and

  • Terminal disease means an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed and will, within reasonable medical judgment, produce death within six months.

  • Home occupation means an occupation permitted in a dwelling unit and which:

  • Own Occupation means your occupation that you were performing when your Disability or Partial Disability began. For the purposes of determining Disability under this plan, Lincoln will consider your occupation as it is normally performed in the national economy.