Supreme Court dismissed appeal; work accident requires external cause, not just internal disease.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the plaintiff's cassation appeal against a labor court decision denying work accident status for a doctor's death. The lower courts found that the doctor's sudden heart attack was caused solely by his own illness, lacking any external work-related trigger. The Supreme Court ruled that Article 316 § 1 of the Civil Procedure Code does not mandate a court to declare a case sufficiently clarified before closing a trial, and thus the second-instance court did not violate procedural rules.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 316 § 1 KPC; Art. 232 KPC; Art. 212 KPC; Art. 6 ust. 1 pkt 1 i 3 ustawy o świadczeniach z tytułu wypadków przy pracy; A work accident requires an external cause distinct from the worker's own disease, and closing a trial does not require a formal finding of sufficient case clarification.