Key legal question
Whether the insured had a disability preventing work from 1 March to 30 November 2003
Extracted holding
No legally relevant long-term incapacity was established for that period.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Tribunal upheld the expert evidence of the external multidisciplinary assessment, which was sufficiently substantiated and found no severe pathology or incapacity of at least 20% before 22 August 2003.