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Manual of Benefits
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COMET MARKETS FULL TIME EMPLOYEES |
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SICKNESS BENEFITS
Non-Occupational Benefits For You WEEKLY BENEFITS When you are absent from work because of a non-occupational accident, or because of sickness, "weekly" payments as shown in the Schedule of Benefits will be made to you beginning: 1. with the 1st day of disability due to an accident or 2. with the 8th day of disability due to sickness unless hospital confinement occurs earlier in which case, payments for disability due to sickness will begin with the first day of hospital confinement. To receive benefits, you must be under a doctor's care. SUCCESSIVE DISABILITIES Successive disabilities due to injuries received in the same accident or due to the same or a related sickness will be considered as one disability unless the disabilities are separated by your return to work for at least 2 consecutive weeks. PAYMENT PERIOD Weekly payments will continue while you are unable to work up to a maximum of 13 weeks. |