Supreme Court quashes disability pension award due to fragmented medical expert opinions violating human integrity principle.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court partially quashed the appellate court's decision granting a disability pension to the applicant, Mirosława S., against the Social Insurance Fund. The court found that the lower court relied on inconsistent and contradictory expert medical opinions from different specialists regarding the applicant's disability status and work capacity. The Supreme Court ruled that human integrity prohibits fragmented assessments by separate specialists, necessitating a unified evaluation of the applicant's health condition.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 393 § 1 KPC; The integrity of the human organism excludes the examination of its ailments in such a way that specialists from different fields of medical knowledge speak separately about them, each assessing only their scope of damage to health and its impact on work capacity.