Questão jurídica principal
Whether the accident insurer proved that the natural causal link between the 2003 accident and the ongoing right-shoulder complaints had ceased by February 2007.
Decisão extraída
The insurer had not shown with sufficient probability that the accident had lost all causal significance; the matter required further medical clarification.
Fundamentação extraída
The court accepted the expert evidence that the accident had initially triggered the persistent complaints and that degenerative pre-existing factors existed, but the decisive question of status quo ante/sine was unanswered. The insurer bore the burden of proving the end of causality and had not adequately clarified this.