Key legal question
Whether the insured's conduct qualified as participation in a brawl or fight under Art. 49(2)(a) UVV, justifying a 50% reduction in daily benefits.
Extracted holding
Yes. His provocative counter-reaction made the ensuing assault adequately causally connected to his conduct, so the reduction was justified.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the later violence need not be foreseeable in its exact course; it is enough that the insured's objectively risky conduct could, according to general life experience, lead to such an escalation. The middle-finger gesture was an active provocation that substantially contributed to the attack.