Question juridique clé
Whether the insurer remained liable for benefits after 2004-07-01 because the alleged cervical disc herniation and somatic complaints were still causally linked to the accident.
Solution extraite
No. The record did not make it predominantly likely that the later-discovered cervical disc herniation had already existed at the time of the accident or was caused by it; natural causation was absent.
Motifs extraits
Early medical reports did not show vertebral or radicular syndrome immediately after the accident. Later imaging and specialist reports showed only a much later onset of symptoms, so the complaints could not be attributed to the 2003 accident.