Supreme Court dismissed cassation, ruling prior civil accident ruling does not bind social insurance rent proceedings.
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by a widow against a social insurance office's refusal of a family accident pension. The widow argued that a final court ruling establishing her husband's death as a work accident should bind the social insurance proceedings under Article 365 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The court held that while Article 365 creates binding force for facts, it does not extend to civil judgments in unrelated proceedings; only final criminal convictions bind civil courts under Article 11. Consequently, the prior civil judgment was treated merely as evidence subject to independent evaluation in the social insurance case.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 365 § 1 KPC; Art. 11 KPC; Art. 366 KPC: The binding force of a final civil court judgment does not extend to binding other civil proceedings involving different legal claims, whereas only final criminal convictions create binding force under Article 11.