[Recognition of a skin disease as an occupational disease according to the current legislation]

Admission of the insurance qualifying occupational skin disease (No. 5101 of Schedule 1 of the Occupational Disease Regulations = BeKV) has as its pre-requisite the availability of the medical evidence. The beginning of the period qualifying for insurance benefit shall be determined retrospectively. A hazardous activity appertains even if only a minor portion of the field of activity is the cause of the disease. Qualifying for insurance benefits requires that this activity shall have been finally given up and that the same or other hazardous activities are avoided in the future. This prognosis must have a good measure of probability. Otherwise, if the insured acts in bad faith, a pension may be withheld; if the insured acted in good faith a worsening of a syndrome by the hazardous activity (whether carried on as occupation or on one's own behalf) is not compensated for. The insurance qualifying date, furthermore, is dependent on the necessity for first-time medical treatment, medicines or therapeutic agents, or the incapacity for work, or the arising of a pension-qualifying reduction in earning power.