Accident insurance coverage for non-traumatic disc hernia

ATA/369/1996Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberJun 25, 1996

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Omnilex summary

The case concerns social insurance coverage for a disc hernia alleged to arise in the context of accident insurance. The available material indicates that the medical condition was non-traumatic. No further procedural or dispositive details are provided.

Omnilex headnote

Art. 6 LAA; accident insurance coverage for a non-traumatic disc hernia. Where a spinal disc hernia is not shown to be of traumatic origin, the decisive question is whether the statutory accident nexus is established. In the absence of a proven accident-related causal mechanism, the claim to accident insurance benefits cannot be derived merely from the existence of the lesion; the insured event must meet the statutory requirements of causation and accident character.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; LESION DE LA COLONNE VERTEBRALE; ASSU

Normes

LAA.6

Résumé

Hernie discale d'origine non traumatique.

Keywords

social insuranceaccident insurancedisc herniacausal linkspinal injury

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