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Report a suspected occupational disease to the statutory accident insurance fund

Service Description

As an employer, you are obliged to immediately report any justified suspicion of an occupational disease in one of your employees to the relevant employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

As an insured person, you can also informally report the suspicion of an occupational disease yourself.

As a doctor, you also have a duty to report a reasonable suspicion of an occupational disease. This applies to both outpatient and inpatient doctors. The employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund will check whether there is an illness and whether it was caused by work.

If the employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund recognizes the occupational disease, it pays for all necessary measures to alleviate the consequences of the occupational disease and prevent it from worsening. These measures can range from medical care to occupational measures.

Insured persons can receive a pension if, despite the measures, a physical impairment with a reduction in earning capacity (MdE) of at least 20 percent remains.

Process flow

You can report a suspected occupational disease online or by post.

Online service:

  • Call up the online service.
  • You will be guided through the procedure on the accident insurance service portal.
  • You can log in.
    • If you would like to receive a reply from your Berufsgenossenschaft or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
    • If you would like to receive the reply by post, you can continue without registering.
  • Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or find them using the industry search.
  • Upload the required documents.
  • Complete the online form and send it off.
  • Your notification will be automatically forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
  • You will receive feedback via the desired channel.

Online service of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:

  • If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the notification electronically there if necessary.

Message by post (for companies and doctors):

  • Download the relevant form from the DGUV website.
  • Please add any necessary information or documents.
  • Send the form to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Message by post (for insured persons):

  • Send an informal letter to your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
  • Make sure you provide the required information and enclose the necessary documents.

Requirements

The disease

  • must generally be included in the Ordinance on Occupational Diseases and
  • must be caused by the occupational activity.

Which documents are required?

Companies or doctors must submit the following documents when registering by post:

  • Companies: Form "Notification by the employer in the event of indications of an occupational disease in an employee"
  • Doctors: form "Medical notification of suspected occupational disease"

What are the fees?

There are no costs.

What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?

There is no deadline.

Processing duration

Processing Time: 1 - 2 Weeks
The duration depends on what data is already available. As a rule, a medical assessment is carried out and the working life must be clarified so that the connection to the professional activity can be assessed.

Legal basis

Applications / forms

  • Appeal
  • Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employer's liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

Appeal

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: partially

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: Yes

Further Information

Author

Technically approved by

Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)

Translation reference

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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Competent Authority

Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung e.V. (DGUV)

Address
Glinkastraße 11568
10117 Berlin, Stadt
Telephone
+49 800 6050404
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https://www.dguv.de

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