Question juridique clé
Whether the pension fund was liable for disability benefits because the decisive incapacity to work arose during insurance coverage and the temporal nexus with earlier incapacity had been interrupted.
Solution extraite
The insured had regained a durable residual work capacity in adapted work for more than three months before becoming totally unable to work again in July 2001; the temporal nexus to earlier incapacity was broken, so the fund was in principle liable.
Motifs extraits
The lower court wrongly disregarded indicators of durable recovery, including unemployment placement at 100% and actual work as a translator and then office assistant. Those activities corresponded to medically described adapted work capacity and were sufficient to interrupt temporal connexity. The later total incapacity beginning 13 July 2001 occurred while insured.