Tick bite during school trip is work accident, not occupational disease, per Polish Work Injury Act.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the plaintiff's cassation appeal regarding her claim for occupational disease benefits. The lower courts established that the plaintiff contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite during a school trip in May and a subsequent meningitis from a bite in summer vacation, neither occurring during work hours. The Court ruled that while the initial bite was a sudden work-related accident, the resulting chronic meningitis was not an occupational disease because it stemmed from a later bite during vacation, lacking the necessary causal link to her employment.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 6 ust. 1 ustawy o świadczeniach z tytułu wypadków przy pracy i chorób zawodowych; Art. 3 ust. 1 rozporządzenia w sprawie chorób zawodowych: A tick bite occurring during work constitutes a work accident, but subsequent occupational disease symptoms arising from a later bite during vacation are not covered as occupational diseases due to lack of causal connection to employment.