Key legal question
Whether the compensation for the personality injury could be reduced under Arts. 43 and 44 OR because of other causal factors.
Extracted holding
No. The additional factors relied on by the cantonal court did not justify any reduction; the full damage amount had to be compensated.
Extracted reasoning
The claimant's continued unemployment after leaving A. AG was attributable solely to the defamatory article of 19 October 1990, which caused the failed hiring by E. AG. The alleged personal risk profile became irrelevant once that job opportunity was lost, and the recession and restructuring trends had already been accounted for in the damage calculation itself, so they could not be used again to reduce liability.