III RN 36/98
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Supreme Court rules that occupational hearing loss is a disease regardless of the specific decibel level measured.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court of Poland overturned a lower court decision that denied occupational hearing loss status based on a 30 dB threshold. The plaintiff argued that the lower court incorrectly relied on non-binding health ministry guidelines rather than statutory law. The court held that the legal definition of occupational disease does not exclude hearing loss based on the degree of impairment.
Legislator headnote
AI generated§ 1 ust. 1 rozporządzenia Rady Ministrów z dnia 18 listopada 1983 r. w sprawie chorób zawodowych; The legal definition of an occupational disease cannot be excluded from the concept of occupational hearing loss caused by noise based on the degree of the hearing impairment.
Keywords
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occupational disease definition
hearing loss threshold
noise induced damage
binding legal provisions
non-binding guidelines
causal link requirement
Supreme Court review
Cited Legislation
AI generated§ 1 ust. 1 rozporządzenia Rady Ministrów z dnia 18 listopada 1983 r. w sprawie chorób zawodowych
art. 393 § 1 KPC
art. 10 ustawy z dnia 1 marca 1996 r. o zmianie Kodeksu postępowania cywilnego
art. 2 Konstytucji