Key legal question
Whether the AXA pension revision and abolition as of 1 April 2011 were lawful under changed circumstances.
Extracted holding
The insurer was entitled to revoke the pension because the decisive psychological impairment had improved substantially and no longer limited work capacity; the medical reassessment was reliable.
Extracted reasoning
The earlier pension was based mainly on non-objective, psychically conditioned complaints after a whiplash injury. In the later expert opinion, somatic findings remained unchanged but psychiatric symptoms had disappeared. This constituted a relevant change in facts justifying revision, and the new medical assessment of full work capacity could be followed.