Geneva cantonal benefits assimilated to daily allowances under OLAA

ATA/268/1996Corte di giustizia / Camera amministrativa14 mag 1996Confirmed

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The court held that Geneva cantonal benefits granted in cases of temporary total or partial incapacity to work (PCMM) must be assimilated to daily allowances of sick funds and private sickness and accident insurers when these are paid in lieu of salary within the meaning of Art. 7 para. 1 lit. b OLAA. The decision turns on the functional equivalence of the benefits to salary-replacement daily allowances.

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Art. 7 al. 1 let. b OLAA; assimilation of cantonal benefits to salary-replacing daily allowances: cantonal prestations in case of temporary total or partial incapacity to work are to be treated, for the purposes of accident-insurance coordination, as daily allowances of sickness funds and private sickness and accident insurers paid in lieu of salary. Decisive is the functional equivalence of the benefit to a wage substitute; nomenclature or cantonal origin is not determinative.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; ASSUJETTISSEMENT(IMPOT); ASSU

Normes

OLAA.7

Résumé

Les prestations cantonales en cas d'incapacité passagère totale ou partielle de travail (PCMM) genevoises doivent être assimilées aux indemnités journalières des caisses-maladie et des assurances-maladie et accident privées qui sont versées en lieu et place du salaire au sens de l'art. 7 al. 1 litt. b OLAA.

Parole chiave

social insuranceaccident insurancesalary replacementdaily allowancecantonal benefitsassimilation

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Questione giuridica chiave

Whether Geneva cantonal benefits for temporary total or partial incapacity to work are to be assimilated to daily allowances paid in lieu of salary under Art. 7 para. 1 lit. b OLAA.

Decisione estratta

Yes. They are to be treated as daily allowances of sickness funds and private sickness and accident insurers paid in lieu of salary.

Motivazione estratta

The benefits have the same function as salary-replacement daily allowances and therefore fall within the scope of Art. 7 para. 1 lit. b OLAA.

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