Key legal question
Whether the insurer could stop all benefits from 1 January 2011 because later complaints were no longer causally linked to the accident
Extracted holding
Yes for the outcome: the Federal Court upheld the denial of further accident-insurance benefits because adequate causation was lacking.
Extracted reasoning
The Court accepted that natural causation could be assumed, but held that adequate causation failed. The assault was an accident of medium severity, and none of the objective criteria for psychic sequelae after such an event were met with sufficient intensity.