Civil court dismissed veteran's disability pension claim as medical evidence did not link illness to imprisonment.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the veteran's cassation appeal regarding a disability pension denied by the Social Insurance Office. The appellant argued that medical experts failed to link his current condition to his 1951-1955 imprisonment, while the court found the illness was naturally caused by age. The court ruled that the medical evidence properly established the illness as independent of the imprisonment, thus denying the statutory pension requirement.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 232 KPC; Art. 233 § 1 KPC; Art. 12 of the Act of 24 January 1991 on combatants: Under the principle of free judicial assessment of evidence, a court may admit unrequested evidence only if existing materials are insufficient, and a pension claim requires objective proof linking current disability to the period of repression.