Natural causality denied under accident insurance

ATA/696/1995Cour de justice / Chambre administrative5 déc. 1995Dismissed

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Résumé

The dispute concerned accident insurance coverage for alleged health consequences of an accident. The court held that the required natural causal connection was not proven. The claim was therefore rejected.

Regest

Art. 6 LAA; natural causation in accident insurance: benefits presuppose that the accident is a natural cause of the health impairment. A causal link is absent where the evidence does not establish, with the required probability, that the accident triggered or materially contributed to the complained-of condition. Mere temporal proximity or an alleged sequence of events is insufficient.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; CAUSALITE NATURELLE

Normes

LAA.6

Résumé

Pas de causalité naturelle.

Mots-clés

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