Question juridique clé
Whether the insured had a contractual right to daily sickness benefits despite being in custody and unemployed at the claim date.
Solution extraite
The claim could not be denied solely because the insured was incarcerated and the employment had ended; the illness was the relevant cause of the incapacity and the dismissal.
Motifs extraits
The lower court construed causation too narrowly. The psychiatric report showed the fire-setting was linked to the insured's mental disorder, so the loss of work capacity stemmed from illness. Incarceration was functionally comparable to hospitalisation and did not break the causal link required by the policy.