Supreme Court allows supplementary pension claim under civil code even if job loss was unrelated to occupational disease.

The Supreme Court set aside the lower courts' dismissal of a supplementary pension claim against a veterinary institute. The plaintiff, diagnosed with occupational brucellosis, lost his job due to a factory reorganization in 1990, but the lower courts incorrectly limited his civil law claims to pre-1990 events. The Court ruled that the loss of earning capacity and increased needs resulting from the disease must be assessed under civil law regardless of the non-medical cause of unemployment, ordering a retrial to calculate the specific pension amount.