II UKN 530/97
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Death by aspiration during sleep while drunk is not a work accident under Polish Work Accident Act.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal regarding a claim that a fisherman's death was a work accident. The court found the death caused exclusively by gastric aspiration during pathological sleep induced by alcohol consumption, which occurred outside work hours. Consequently, the court ruled that no causal link existed between the death and the employment relationship.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 6 ust. 1 ustawy o świadczeniach z tytułu wypadków przy pracy i chorób zawodowych; death resulting from alcohol-induced pathological sleep and gastric aspiration is not a work accident.
Keywords
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work accident
alcohol consumption
pathological sleep
causal link
workplace injury
cassation appeal
medical opinion
Cited Legislation
AI generatedArt. 6 ust. 1 ustawy z dnia 12 czerwca 1975 r. o świadczeniach z tytułu wypadków przy pracy i chorób zawodowych
art. 233 KPC
art. 393 12 KPC