Key legal question
Whether the diagnosed somatoform pain syndrome and panic disorder justified a reduced work capacity under disability insurance law.
Extracted holding
The qualifying criteria for a legally relevant psychiatric impairment were not met; no invalidating health impairment was established.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court held that the cantonal court improperly relied on a 50% reduced capacity based on psychiatric findings. The panic disorder was not a sufficiently grave, acute, and lasting psychiatric comorbidity, and the other jurisprudential criteria for non-exigibility were also absent.