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ATA/536/1998•Popliteal cyst and natural causation after accident
ATA/536/1998Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberSep 1, 1998
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In a social insurance dispute concerning accident coverage under the LAA, the court held that a popliteal cyst may be attributed to an accident only if it manifests shortly after the event, so that a natural causal link can be accepted. The abstract also notes that the question whether a foreign health insurer should be joined as a party was left open. No dispositive result is available from the provided extract.
LAA art. 6; natural causation of a popliteal cyst after an accident: a post-traumatic cyst can be regarded as accident-related only if it appears rapidly after the accident, since temporal proximity is a decisive indicator of causation; absent such prompt manifestation, natural causation is not established. The question of joinder of a foreign health insurer may remain open where unnecessary for the outcome.
Descripteurs
ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; KYSTE; CAUSALITE NATURELLE; ASSU
Normes
LAA.6
Résumé
Un kyste poplité doit apparaître rapidement après un accident pour que l'on puisse admettre qu'il provienne de celui-ci. Question de l'appel en cause de la caisse-maladie étrangère laissée ouverte.
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Whether the popliteal cyst was in natural causal relation with the accident under LAA.
A popliteal cyst can be admitted as accident-related only if it appears quickly after the accident; otherwise natural causation is not established.
The temporal proximity between the accident and the emergence of the cyst is decisive for accepting causation.
Whether the foreign health insurer should be joined in the proceedings.
The question of joinder of the foreign health insurer was left open.
No definitive ruling on joinder is stated in the available summary.
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