MACT compensation can be transferred to a claimant’s account in any branch of any nationalised bank, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held, setting aside a Neemuch tribunal’s insistence on a Union Bank of India account.
“The deceased was at peak of his negligence”: that is how the Gujarat High Court describes the driver as it rejects compensation claim by his family over a 2003 death at an unmanned railway crossing, finding no breach of duty by the Railways proved. Ahmedabad: A claim of Rs 7,43,000 over a 2003 death at […]
Supreme Court orders integration of road accident portals so that accident reports, vehicle and insurance records and earlier claim histories can be cross-checked, in a bid to stop fraudulent motor accident claims. The Court also issued show-cause notices to heads of insurers who did not appear in person. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed […]
Rs 8,000 a month was too little for a student who had cleared the Common Proficiency Test, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has held, raising the compensation for CA student Dawood Hussain’s family from Rs 8.80 lakh to Rs 25.38 lakh. Amaravati: Enhancing the compensation for CA student Dawood Hussain’s family, the Andhra Pradesh High […]
A delayed medical examination cannot discard permanent disability evidence, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held, enhancing a motor accident claimant’s compensation by Rs 50,000 after a tribunal declined to accept his 60 percent disability claim. Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a delayed medical examination cannot discard permanent disability evidence merely […]
The Allahabad High Court has held that motor accident compensation can be enhanced even where the claimants have filed no cross-appeal, once the insurer has appealed against the quantum awarded, and has raised an award of Rs 7.20 lakh to Rs 11.43 lakh. Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court has enhanced the compensation awarded to the […]
The Rajasthan High Court has directed Shriram General Insurance to first pay Rs 4.81 lakh with interest to a boy injured at age 10 while travelling in a goods vehicle, with liberty to recover it from the owner and driver, holding that the absence of a passenger permit justified recovery but not complete exoneration of the insurer.
A four-year-old was killed by a car driven by a man holding only a learner’s licence, who could not prove he was accompanied by an instructor or that the vehicle displayed an ‘L’ plate. The Karnataka High Court held that this breach of Rule 3 of the CMV Rules absolved the insurer of liability, but directed it to pay the compensation to the bereaved parents and recover it from the owner-driver.