The Bulgarian court accepts that in order to have an accident at work, it must have a sudden health impairment that caused incapacity or death and occurred during and in connection with or in connection with the work performed, as well as any other work performed. work carried out in the interest of the insurer or the undertaking. In the case of guilty behavior on the part of the victim, which contributed to the harmful outcome, the accident is not considered as occupational. In order to recognize an accident as a work accident, there must be an employment relationship. With regard to occupational disease, the SAC points out that the most important to it is the causal link between the injury and the usual, inevitable inherent and accompanying harm to the job and working conditions. In order to establish the incapacity for work, as well as the causal link between it and the specific accident, a hospital certificate for temporary incapacity for work, an expert decision by the TEMC and the NEMC on permanent disability is needed. In case of death, it is established by the physician by means of a death notice, on the basis of which a death certificate must be issued within 48 hours by the bodies of the civil organization. The employer has the obligation within 3 days from the occurrence of the accident to file a Declaration of accident at the designated territorial division of the NSSI. Accident shall be credited with the occurrence of the accident on the day the consequences of the accident occurred. Not the day the accident itself happened. The victim or his / her relatives may file the declaration no later than one year after its occurrence if the employer fails to do so within this 3-day period. It should then be classified by the NSSI official on the basis of the submitted documents as an occupational accident. Provided that it does not qualify as such, the victim or his or her heirs have the right to appeal to the head of the respective territorial division of the NSSI. According to the Labor Code, the employer is obliged to cover the difference between the actual damages suffered by the person and those which the insurance body has compensated. The employer reimburses: costs for medicines and treatment; the difference between the salary received by the person up to the time of the accident at work and the compensation the NSSI pays, the non-pecuniary damage is only assessed by a court. The responsibility of the employer is exercised only by court order. If damages resulting from the deterioration are compensated for, a new claim must be filed.
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