PUTTING A STOP TO THE EXCESSIVE CONCEPTION OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTOCCUPATIONAL DISEASE ANNUITY

Abstract

The law courts are confronted with an important debate
concerning the nature of the AT-MP (industrial accident-occupational disease) annuity, as has already been
explained by Monsieur Francis Meyer. This debate results
from the excessive conception retained up to now of the
annuity which is supposed to indemnify at one and the
same time the permanent functional deficit and the loss
of earning ability of victim1. These difficulties are caused by a first conceptual difficulty inherent to compensation for bodily harm. They are materialised in the law of
professional risks in the unclear notion of partial permanent inability. It seems imperative to give up this notion
but then there are difficulties which, for the moment,
seem inextricable