Question juridique clé
Whether the 1998 vascular accident was causally linked to the 1990 traffic accident.
Solution extraite
Yes. The original accident remained a natural cause through the surgery it necessitated; this was indirect causation, not an interrupted or superseded causal chain.
Motifs extraits
The court held that if A causes B and B causes C, A is also a natural cause of C. The canton had wrongly applied the notions of 'causalité dépassée/dépassante' to a chain where the later surgery was itself caused by the original accident.