Questão jurídica principal
Whether the rear-end collision was the natural causal cause, or at least a substantial contributing cause, of the fatal aortic dissection and resulting death.
Decisão extraída
The available evidence made a causal contribution of the accident plausible, but the decisive medical questions were not yet sufficiently clarified under the social-insurance standard of proof.
Fundamentação extraída
The Federal Court held that the IRM opinion used a forensic, not a social-insurance, probability standard and that the file still left open whether the accident was a significant partial cause or merely an interchangeable trigger in the presence of a severe pre-existing aortic wall disease.