Questão jurídica principal
Whether daily sickness benefits may be reduced to the statutory minimum once the insured has reached retirement age, even if still gainfully active.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The insurers may reduce daily allowance benefits to the statutory minimum for an insured person who has reached retirement age, even if the person continues to work; the timing of the reduction during a sickness period does not matter.
Fundamentação extraída
The headnote states that reaching the age of old-age insurance is sufficient to justify the reduction to the legal minimum, irrespective of continued activity and irrespective of whether the reduction occurs while sickness benefits are being paid.