Key legal question
Whether the claimant could prove an adequate causal link between the 26 October 1992 traffic accident and his later psychiatric disability and resulting damage claims.
Extracted holding
The adequate causal link was absent; the accident was too far in the background of the claimant's current recurrent psychiatric disorders.
Extracted reasoning
The canton court's factual findings bound the Federal Court. Existing symptoms before the accident, the stronger aggravation after a 2000 surgery, and the long absence from work could reasonably explain the later condition; the claimant's contrary view relied on an inadmissible factual version.