Insurance payment on work-related disasters to proprietors with fewer than five employees by health insurance
Work-related disasters are not applicable to health insurance since Health Insurance Law does not permit insurance payment for injuries or diseases due to work-related disasters.
On the other hands, representatives or managers of small corporations are not entitled to receive insurance payment based on Worker’s Accident Compensation Insurance Law because they are not construed as employees according to Labor Standard Law.
But representatives who are representatives of corporation called “extremely small business” is now allowed to receive health insurance payment for work-related injuries from July 1st, 2003 as a temporary measure with the condition that they are involved in similar job to their employees after it was found that there was no difference in working condition between them and individual business.
(Jul 1, 2004)
