Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the occupational pension fund must provide invalidity benefits for the later disability period.
Decisione estratta
No. The fund is not liable because the incapacity of work linked to the later invalidity began after an interruption that broke the temporal nexus.
Motivazione estratta
The Federal Court held itself bound by the AI determination of the relevant onset date. More than two and a half years elapsed between the insured's restored full work capacity in January 1999 and the renewed incapacity leading to invalidity in September 2001. That interruption was long enough to sever temporal causation.