California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from J. T. Thorp, Inc. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 153 Cal.App.3d 327, 200 Cal.Rptr. 219 (Cal. App. 1984):
14 "Disability," as used in the Act, has also been defined as having two elements: (1) the actual incapacity to perform the tasks usually encountered in one's employment and the wage loss resulting therefrom and (2) physical impairment of the body. (Perry v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1977) 66 Cal.App.3d 887, 890, 136 Cal.Rptr. 309.)
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