Critics of the policy assert that it allows some workers to collect sizable disability pensions for illnesses unrelated to their jobs.

The committee also said it was reasonable to consider withholding dialysis from patients with terminal illnesses unrelated to the kidneys.

Q: My health care professional has prescribed antibiotics to treat an unrelated illness.

Mr. Alston died several weeks later of illnesses unrelated to the accident.

No amount of care could prevent a succession of totally unrelated illnesses.

On 15 February 2011, she died in her Auckland home, aged 70, of an illness unrelated to the accident.

This condition, which can be triggered by an unrelated illness, causes fevers to 105 degrees.

But she said that both patients had been treated successfully and later succumbed to unrelated illnesses.

In response to Michael's quizzical look, he went on, "They died on the very same day, of unrelated illnesses.

While the case was moving through the courts, Burian died of an illness unrelated to the accident on 21 February 1902.