Question juridique clé
Whether the pension fund owed an invalidity pension under BVG for disability arising after the insured joined in 2001.
Solution extraite
No pension fund liability was established because the decisive work incapacity and invalidity were causally linked to a pre-existing psychiatric condition that predated the affiliation.
Motifs extraits
Under Art. 23 BVG, liability requires work incapacity arising during the insurance period and in close temporal and material connection with later invalidity. The courts found the later incapacity derived from a prior health impairment, and the employment was only an integration attempt.