Questione giuridica chiave
Whether natural causation in tort required proof that the accident continued to cause the claimant's health problems after 2000.
Decisione estratta
No. For motor-vehicle liability, it is enough that the accident was a natural cause of the damage when it occurred; the later cessation of causal link in social insurance law is not decisive.
Motivazione estratta
The cantonal court incorrectly imported social-insurance concepts of status quo ante/sine into civil liability. Natural causation is established if the accident was a conditio sine qua non for the damage and need only be shown with preponderance of probability.