Key legal question
Whether fMRT of the cranio-cervical junction is an accepted scientific method to prove accident-caused HWS lesions and causal connection
Extracted holding
The Court held that fMRT is not yet generally scientifically accepted for proving causation of post-HWS-trauma complaints and therefore has no decisive evidentiary value here.
Extracted reasoning
Medical opinions and literature remain divided; there is no broad consensus. As with other non-accepted imaging methods, such examinations cannot reliably establish accident causality.