Workers Compensation — Occupational Diseases — Definitions Date: 19 Apr 2016 TEXT PDF Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237 Whenever used in this article: 1. "Disability" means the state of being disabled from earning full wages at the work at which the employee was last employed. 2. "Disablement" means the act of becoming so disabled as defined in subdivision one. N.Y. Work. Comp. Law § 37