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“The deceased was a gratuitous passenger based on hearsay knowledge from persons who did not enter the witness box, but, on a preponderance of probabilities, the evidence on record clearly suggest that the deceased was a workman working with the owner.”
“ESIC’s insistence on an emergency certificate to process the petitioner wife’s claim is untenable and hyper-technical”
“This was not an internal spark but it was a heavy vibration that the roter and the other components rubbed causing the spark of fire at the exciter end that propagated towards the generator. The exclusion clause therefore would not apply”.
Supreme Court reiterated that exclusion clauses in insurance contracts are interpreted strictly against the insurer as they have the effect of completely exempting the insurer of its liabilities.
To avail the benefit of insurance policy of Rs.1,50,00,000/-, an innocent person was killed to portray that the accused had met with an accident and in the said accident, the car in which the accused was travelling caught fire and got burnt.
“Waiver is the abandonment of a right which normally every body is at liberty to waive. It is an intentional relinquishment of known right or advantage, benefit, claim or privilege which except for such waiver the party would have enjoyed.”
Calcutta High Court upheld the maintainability of the writ petition under Article 226, given the challenge is on the grounds of arbitrariness and illegality in the repudiation process.
“The (buzz) word is that Mosquitoes are simply everywhere — in pools, parks, movie theatres and convention centres — pests! Perhaps the time has finally come to use cannons to kill mosquitoes.”
In the instant matter the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission had to determine whether the complainant's JCB machine had fallen down or overturned for the purposes of an insurance claim
Himachal Pradesh High Court: While deciding an appeal against award of Rs. 15,85,000/- compensation to the deceased’s mother, Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J.
Supreme Court: In an interesting case regarding insurance claim, the Division Bench comprising Hemant Gupta and V. Ramasubramanian*, JJ., reversed the NCDRC’s
Madhya Pradesh High Court: While dismissing an appeal filed under Section 173(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 challenging award passed by
Supreme Court: In an insurance repudiation case the Division Bench of Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S. Oka*, JJ., held that where the insurance policy expressly
Supreme Court: In a case where an Insurance Company had refused to settle an insurance claim on non-submission of the duplicate certified
Supreme Court: The bench of Sanjiv Khanna and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ has held that an Insurance Company cannot repudiate a claim
Supreme Court: The Division Bench of Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and B.V. Nagarathna*, JJ., held that if on the consideration of the medical
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): C. Viswanath (Presiding Member) while addressing the appeal, expressed that: If the valuation of the lost
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): The Division Bench of Justice R.K. Agrawal (President) and Dr S.M. Kantikar (Member) while partly allowing
Supreme Court: When the bench of Dr. DY Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta, JJ was tasked with determining whether a death due to
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): A Single Member Bench of Prem Narain, (Presiding Member), allowed a revision petition filed against the