Questão jurídica principal
Whether the occupational pension fund owed disability benefits under Art. 23 BVG despite the later diagnosis of a pain disorder.
Decisão extraída
No. The invalidity was based on an independent pain disorder, and the court found no sufficiently close causal link with a work incapacity during the insurance period.
Fundamentação extraída
The original incapacity was attributable to healed rib fractures; the later psychiatric/pain disorder was diagnosed only after the end of the coverage period and, according to the factual findings, did not cause incapacity by the end of March 2002. The mere fact that the accident triggered the overall health problems was insufficient.