Questão jurídica principal
Whether the insured established a rent-entitling invalidity due to whiplash-related pain and related complaints
Decisão extraída
The medical file showed a non-organic pain syndrome without a psychically relevant comorbidity, no qualifying chronic physical comorbidity, no social withdrawal, and insufficient use of treatment options; therefore no invalidity relevant for pension entitlement existed.
Fundamentação extraída
The court applied the settled case law on somatoform pain disorders and analogous syndromes: only exceptional circumstances make pain overcomable by will impossible. Those criteria were not met, and the insured had not exhausted reasonable mitigation and treatment measures.