Key legal question
Whether the pension fund was liable for disability benefits under occupational pension law.
Extracted holding
The fund was not liable because proof failed that a relevant incapacity to work arose during the insurance relationship.
Extracted reasoning
Liability depends on a temporal link between incapacity to work and later disability. The court held that a full ability to work in a suitable activity of sufficient duration can interrupt that link. Here, it could not be established that the claimant’s work became medically relevantly more demanding only after the restructuring, so the decisive incapacity was not proven during coverage.