Total Permanent Disability (TPD) is a phrase used in the insurance industry and in law. Generally speaking, it means that because of a sickness or injury, a person is unable to work in their own or any occupation for which they are suited by training, education, or experience. An individual or group of individuals can insure themselves against it through a disability insurance policy, as part of a life insurance package or through worker's compensation insurance.
Definitions of permanent disability
Ballentine's Law Dictionary defines a permanent disability is one that "will remain with a person throughout" his or her lifetime, or he or she will not recover, or "that in all possibility, will continue indefinitely."
Insurance companies often have slightly different definitions of what determines permanent disability. However typical definitions would include:
- Loss of two of: eyes, arms or legs.
- Absence from work for six months due to an accident or illness, without expectation of returning to work.
United States & Canada
Under Worker's compensation law, each state and province has a definition of permanent disability.
Under No-fault insurance law, New York defines significant injury as including a permanent loss of use .
Distinctions
TPD differs from income protection insurance in that the insured person must be permanently disabled for the insurer to pay out, rather than just absent from work for an extended period of time.
References
- ^ Ballentine's Law Dictionary, p. 402.
- ^ Alberta, Canada definition.
- ^ California definition of permanent disability
- ^ Colorado law on Permanent Disability
- ^ See, generally, Legal Dictionary definition and discussion regarding wroker's comp laws
- ^ New York Insurance law, section 5102 (McKinney's Laws).
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