Key legal question
Whether accident-related health effects after 8 January 2002 still had a legally relevant causal link to the 1995 accident and justified continued benefits under the UVG.
Extracted holding
Yes. The whiplash-related symptom picture remained the proper framework for adäquacy review, and the causal connection was still established beyond 8 January 2002.
Extracted reasoning
The court upheld the lower court's assessment that the case was one of whiplash injury, not a primarily psychological accident consequence. Somatic complaints predominated initially; the medical evidence, especially the MEDAS report, supported continuing accident-related impairment. The accident was a medium one in the middle range, and several adequacy criteria were met, including duration and degree of incapacity.