P.R. Laws tit. 25, § 379
(a) An employee shall be deemed disabled:
(1) When evidence regarding the mental or physical disability of the employee is received from the physician designated by the administrator.
(2) When the disability arises as a result of the provisions of § 377 of this title.
(3) When, in the judgment of the Administrator, such disability prevents the employee from conveniently performing the duties of his office or of any other job that is assigned in the service of the employer with a salary that is at least equal to that which he receives, or when as a result of such disability he is reassigned to a job with a salary below that which he receives.
(b) He shall be entitled to this annuity, provided that:
(1) The disability is compensable according to the provisions of §§ 1 et seq. of Title 11.
(2) The disability is certified with sufficient medical evidence and in accordance with the regularly accepted criteria in the field of disability compensation, fixed by the Administrator through regulations. The Administrator may send the employee for an additional evaluation by one or more physicians that the former may designate.
The Administrator of the Commonwealth State Insurance Fund shall put at the disposal of the Administrator of the Retirement System, at his request, the medical reports of examinations performed on the employee, and any other document related to the work accident that motivates the claim for disability pension or death benefits.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 127, p. 300, § 4; Feb. 16, 1990, No. 1, p. 3, § 26; July 30, 1999, No. 174, § 4.