Question juridique clé
Whether the insured had a disabling mental impairment or qualifying somatoform pain disorder entitling him to an invalidity pension.
Solution extraite
No disabling mental impairment was shown; the depressive episode was not an independent, sufficiently severe comorbidity and the other criteria for an exceptional inability to overcome pain were not met.
Motifs extraits
The court accepted the expert report but held that a medium depressive episode is usually treatable and not a distinct enduring depression. Psychosocial stressors were irrelevant, therapeutic options were not exhausted, social withdrawal was not pervasive, and the qualifying criteria for an exceptional invalidating pain disorder were neither cumulative nor pronounced.