Supreme Court allows widow's mining pension by ruling death in underground accident equals disability regardless of work duration.

The Supreme Court of Poland overturned a lower court decision that denied a widow's mining pension to the applicant, Alicja W. The court found that the applicant's husband died in a workplace accident underground, which legally equates to disability under mining pension laws, regardless of his short nine-month tenure. Consequently, the court ruled that the lower court's refusal violated specific statutes granting priority to the accident-based pension scheme over general pension rules.