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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

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Under No-fault insurance law, New York defines significant injury as including a permanent loss of use.

Australia

Total and Permanent Disablement Insurance is designed to provide a lump sum benefit to the life insured in the event of a medically diagnosed event that renders the claimant unable to work again. There are different definitions of TPD Insurance ranging from policies that pay a benefit on the loss of independent living, an inability to conduct any occupation that the claimant is reasonably suited to education, training or experience or payable on an inability to conduct a claimants occupation only . TPD Insurance in Australia can be owned and paid for from superannuation accounts.

The Netherlands

This insurance is mainly purchased by self-employed professionals, it is also called 'one person company'. This insurance would cover maximum 80% of the income after the accident.AOV

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

  1. Ballentine's Law Dictionary, p. 402.
  2. New York Insurance law, section 5102 (McKinney's Laws).
  3. "What is TPD Insurance?"

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