Key legal question
Whether the appellants were entitled to surviving spouse and child pensions from the occupational pension fund.
Extracted holding
The required close temporal and substantive link between the documented illness and the later death was not proven with the required probability.
Extracted reasoning
There was a major medical documentation gap from April 2008 until death in November 2010. Retrospective assessments relied mainly on relatives’ statements and did not reliably establish continuous incapacity of at least 20%. The risk of non-proof therefore fell on the claimants.