Adequate causation for psychic injury after medium accident

ATA/503/1997Tribunal de Justiça / Câmara Administrativa26 de ago. de 1997Other

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Resumo Omnilex

In a social insurance accident matter, the court addressed whether psychic disorders remained adequately causally linked to a medium-severity accident. It accepted that exceptional circumstances, notably significant pain, diagnostic errors, and the length of treatment, can justify adequate causation. The extract does not provide the full procedural history or the final operative part beyond this legal conclusion.

Sumário Omnilex

LAA art. 6 al. 1; causalité adéquate en cas d’accident de gravité moyenne et troubles psychiques; des circonstances exceptionnelles peuvent fonder l’admission du lien de causalité adéquate, notamment lorsque s’y ajoutent des douleurs importantes, des erreurs de diagnostic et une durée de traitement particulièrement longue. La présence de tels éléments permet de dépasser le simple enchaînement chronologique entre accident et atteinte psychique et de retenir la responsabilité de l’assureur-accidents (consid. non indiqué).

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; CAUSALITE ADEQUATE; ASSU

Normes

LAA.6 al.1

Résumé

Circonstances exceptionnelles (douleurs, erreurs de diagnostic, longueur du traitement) permettant d'admettre l'existence du lien de causalité adéquate entre un accident de gravité moyenne et des troubles psychiques.

Palavras-chave

social insuranceaccidentpsychic disordersadequate causationdiagnostic errortreatment durationpain

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Questão jurídica principal

Whether adequate causal connection exists between a medium-severity accident and subsequent psychic disorders despite pain, diagnostic errors, and prolonged treatment.

Decisão extraída

Adequate causation may be admitted where exceptional circumstances are present, including marked pain, diagnostic mistakes, and an unusually long course of treatment.

Fundamentação extraída

The abstract indicates that these exceptional features are sufficient to bridge the gap between the accident and the later psychic complaints in a medium-severity accident case.

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