Questão jurídica principal
Whether the employer had to maintain post-termination sickness benefit coverage without requiring the employee to enter individual insurance and pay premiums.
Decisão extraída
The contractual promise to provide long-term sickness benefit coverage entitled the employee to rely on coverage continuing beyond termination; the employer could not avoid its contractual duty by switching insurers internally.
Fundamentação extraída
The AAB promised a group daily sickness insurance with defined benefits and no reservation that coverage would end with employment. Under established case law, the employee may trust such coverage to extend for the agreed period even after termination; the employer's actual insurance arrangement is irrelevant if not incorporated into the contract.