Supreme Court rules 'previous inability' means medical cessation, rejecting system interpretation for sickness benefits.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court resolved a legal question regarding the definition of 'previous inability to work' under Polish social insurance law. The lower court asked whether this phrase referred to a medical cessation or the exhaustion of the 182-day benefit period. The court ruled that the phrase must be interpreted linguistically as a medical cessation, rejecting a systemic interpretation that would allow counting periods after the statutory benefit limit. Consequently, the court declined to answer the remaining questions about the definition of 'same disease' and the counting of multiple interruptions.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 9 ust. 2 ustawy z dnia 25 czerwca 1999 r. o świadczeniach pieniężnych z ubezpieczenia społecznego w razie choroby i macierzyństwa; The term 'previous inability to work' must be interpreted as a medical cessation of inability, not as the exhaustion of the benefit period, and systemic interpretation is inadmissible when linguistic interpretation is clear.