Questão jurídica principal
Whether the tick bite likely occurred during the insurer's coverage period
Decisão extraída
The court held that the bite most probably occurred after 1 January 2000, so coverage existed.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower court's assumption that the decisive bite could have occurred many years earlier was unsupported. Medical literature indicated symptom onset usually follows within months, not years, unless a rare late stage is shown, which was not at issue.