Originally Posted by
rickair7777
What's the basis for the disability being claimed? I have trouble imagining a condition which precludes you from coming to work long-term which would not impact FAA medical certification. Short-term is different, ex a common cold, but you can't call in sick for three years with a cold.
I do imagine the company and insurance provider would fight that...
The basis is by nature of the mandates of the vaccine. Whether mandated by the company or .gov, they cannot comply due to a medical condition and therefore cannot execute the medical certificate due to that medical condition. It’s a small group of folks for sure, but there are going to be people who have something in their medical history to which they shouldn’t get it, but yet have no problems qualifying for a Class I.
I’m sure it would be fought by both the company and the administrators of the policy, although the terms are so broad that it certainly gives someone willing to fight it a case. It would be different if the terms said that if you “lost your medical certificate due to a medical condition,” but it does not.