Key legal question
Whether the appellant had a right to an occupational disability pension from the respondent under mandatory BVG coverage.
Extracted holding
No pension entitlement existed because the decisive incapacity was deemed to have begun only on 17 August 1998, when the appellant was no longer insured with the respondent.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that, where the pension fund relies on the IV assessment, the insured person must generally accept the IV findings unless they are manifestly untenable. The IV finding on the onset of disabling incapacity was not obviously wrong.