Key legal question
Whether the disability pension had to be revised upward due to a substantial change in earning incapacity, including psychically caused incapacity.
Extracted holding
The insured’s condition worsened materially through a trauma-related, non-therapable pain psychosis, so the pension must be reassessed with psychiatric incapacity included.
Extracted reasoning
Between 1988 and 2002 the medical situation changed due to the development and fixation of an accident-related algogenic psychosyndrome. The causal link is adequate because several accident-related criteria were present in a cumulative manner: unusually long treatment, constant pain, long physical incapacity, difficult healing course, and at least partial medical mismanagement.