Key legal question
Whether the insured proved a heightened need for integration justifying premature full reimbursement for new hearing aids.
Extracted holding
The record was insufficient to decide whether the new job truly made the existing hearing aids inadequate; further specialist assessment was required.
Extracted reasoning
The cantonal court relied on an expert letter, but the file contained conflicting indications about the communication demands of the new job and about the actual adequacy of the existing devices. The Federal Court held that the facts were incompletely established.