Questão jurídica principal
Whether the insured remained entitled to accident-insurance benefits beyond 31 December 2006 for a relapse of the 8 October 2003 accident.
Decisão extraída
The natural causal link between the accident and the knee complaints ceased by 31 December 2006; benefits could lawfully be ended from that date.
Fundamentação extraída
The expert evidence showed only a minimal objective chondropathy, no significant traumatic lesion, an asymptomatic period after return to work, and no medical basis to attribute the later pain to the accident rather than a latent condition reaching its status quo sine.