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Accident insurance: trainee income and impairment compensation

ATA/802/1997Court of Justice / Administrative ChamberDec 23, 1997

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Omnilex summary

The dispute concerned accident-insurance benefits for a person in training. The decision states that the relevant income for disability benefits is the income actually earned before the accident, and that a pension cannot be calculated on the wage the insured would have earned only after completing training, even if that amount corresponds to the usual profession-related salary. The case also recognizes an impairment compensation of CHF 20,400 for a moderate painful spinal syndrome together with pulmonary and thoracic pain-related impairment.

Omnilex headnote

Art. 24 OLAA; calculation of accident-insurance disability benefits for persons in training and assessment of impairment compensation. For insured persons still in training, the full salary is determined by the remuneration expected upon completion of the training, but the invalidity income for pension purposes remains tied to the pre-accident earning basis actually realized; a hypothetical post-training professional wage cannot be substituted if it was not yet earned. An impairment compensation is awarded where the bodily sequelae produce a compensable permanent anatomical or functional detriment, the amount depending on the medically established degree of impairment (consid. not specified).

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; RENTE D'INVALIDITE; REVENU; CALCUL; INDEMNITE POUR ATTEINTE A L'INTEGRITE; AFFECTION PULMONAIRE; ASSU

Normes

OLAA.24

Résumé

Le plein salaire d'une personne en formation est celui qu'elle aurait touché à l'issue de sa formation (ATA G. du 26.08.97). Le gain réalisé avant l'accident sert de base de calcul des indemnités journalières et des rentes d'invalidité; même si l'assuré ne gagne pas le revenu usuel dans sa profession, la rente ne peut pas être calculée sur la base du revenu qu'il gagnerait en exerçant la profession apprise (ATF du 27.12.95 en la cause A.) IPAI de CHF 20'400.- en raison d'un syndrome vertébral douloureux modéré et d'une atteinte pulmonaire et thoraco-algique.

Keywords

social insuranceaccident insurancetraineedisability pensionincome calculationimpairment compensationpulmonary injuryspinal pain syndrome

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Key legal questions extracted by Omnilex

Key legal question

Whether the insured person's pre-accident earnings or expected post-training salary should be used to calculate disability benefits for a trainee.

Extracted holding

The earning capacity basis is the wage actually achieved before the accident; for a person in training, the full salary is the one expected at the end of the training, but the disability pension may not be calculated on the hypothetical wage of the learned profession if the insured did not yet earn it.

Extracted reasoning

The decision follows the principle that the pre-accident earned income serves as the basis for daily benefits and disability pensions. Even if the insured did not yet earn the usual wage in the profession, the pension base cannot be set on the income that would have been earned only after completion of the training.

Key legal question

Whether impairment compensation was due for the documented spinal pain syndrome and pulmonary/thoracic complaints, and in what amount.

Extracted holding

Impairment compensation was awarded in the amount of CHF 20,400 for a moderate painful vertebral syndrome together with pulmonary and thoraco-algic impairment.

Extracted reasoning

The medical consequences described justified a compensable permanent impairment within the accident insurance scheme.

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