Key legal question
Whether the insured could obtain retroactive disability pension benefits before 1 October 2000 despite filing in October 2001.
Extracted holding
The filing was late, and the exception for unknowable benefit-triggering facts or force majeure did not justify benefits back to 1997; the earliest payable date was 1 October 2000.
Extracted reasoning
The insured knew of her psychiatric problems long before 2001, and the relevant facts were objectively recognizable. There was no proof of an incapacity to act amounting to force majeure.