Questão jurídica principal
Whether the July 2004 accident was in natural causal relation to the lumbar disc herniation operated on 28 February 2006
Decisão extraída
No natural causal link was proven; the accident was at most a predisposing factor and did not trigger the hernia.
Fundamentação extraída
The expert considered a direct traumatic causation very unlikely: there were no lumbar complaints at the time, a quasi-silent herniation lasting 18 months was implausible, and the later pathology was more consistent with degenerative development.