Adequate causality of psychical disorders after a medium accident

ATA/468/1996Tribunal de Justiça / Câmara Administrativa28 de ago. de 1996Dismissed

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Resumo Omnilex

The case concerns an accident insurance claim for psychical disorders said to have arisen from guilt feelings after a medium-severity traffic accident that left no particular sequelae for the victims. The court held that such disorders are not in adequate causal connection with the accident. The claim was therefore rejected.

Sumário Omnilex

Art. 6 para. 1 LAA; adequate causal connection between an accident and psychical sequelae. Psychical disorders developing from feelings of guilt after a medium-severity traffic accident, where the event did not produce particular consequences for the victims, are not adequately caused by the accident. In assessing adequate causation, the ordinary criteria applicable to accident sequelae must be applied; where the accident lacks special gravity or particularly striking consequences, the chain is interrupted for purely psychogenic reactions based on subjective guilt feelings.

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT DE GRAVITE MOYENNE; CAUSALITE ADEQUATE; AFFECTION PSYCHIQUE; ASSU

Normes

LAA.6 al.1

Résumé

Des troubles psychiques, développés par sentiment de culpabilité à la suite d'un accident de la circulation de gravité moyenne n'ayant pas entraîné de sequelles particulières pour les victimes, ne peuvent être mis en relation de causalité adéquate avec l'accident.

Palavras-chave

social insuranceaccident insuranceadequate causalitypsychic disordermedium severity accidentfeelings of guilt

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Questão jurídica principal

Whether the insured person's psychical disorders are in adequate causal connection with the accident under the Accident Insurance Act.

Decisão extraída

No adequate causal connection exists between the medium-severity accident and the later psychical disorders.

Fundamentação extraída

The accident was of medium gravity and did not cause particular consequences for the victims; feelings of guilt leading to psychical symptoms are therefore not adequately attributable to the accident.

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