{"id":218276,"date":"2019-08-17T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=218276"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T05:58:01","slug":"ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Punjab and Haryana High Court: <\/b>Ritu Bahri, J. allowed the petition and modified the award according to the prevalent rate in accordance with the decision by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

An appeal was made by the Claimant-Appellants to seek the enhancement of compensation awarded by Motor Accident Claim Tribunal on the account of the death of Ashok Kumar in a motor accident.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The facts of the case were that the Ashok Kumar had died in a road accident by the car being driven by its driver rashly and negligently and at high speed and struck Ashok Kumar while he was returning with his brother, due to which he fell down and sustained serious injuries on his body. Soon he died. The claimant-appellant thus filed a claim petition before the tribunal. The tribunal passed an order where the compensation was awarded along with the interest at 7.5% per annum. Feeling dissatisfied with the impugned award, the present appeal was preferred.<\/p>\n

The court opined that to meet the ends of justice the compensation had to be assessed keeping in view the minimum wages prevalent in Haryana as passed by Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court in Magma General Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Nanu Ram<\/i>, <\/i><\/b>Civil Appeal No. 9581 of 2018. Thus, the amount was modified with the interest at 9% per annum.\u00a0<\/span>[Usha v. Rajesh Arora, 2019 SCC OnLine P&H 1415<\/b><\/a>, decided on 13-08-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Ritu Bahri, J. allowed the petition and modified the award according to the prevalent rate in accordance <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2728,37113,37112],"class_list":["post-218276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-compensation","tag-minimum-wage","tag-motor-accident-claim"],"yoast_head":"\nP&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punjab and Haryana High Court: Ritu Bahri, J. allowed the petition and modified the award according to the prevalent rate in accordance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-17T10:00:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-23T05:58:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/panjab_and_hariyana_high_court.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/\",\"name\":\"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State | SCC Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-17T10:00:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-23T05:58:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"SCC Times\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\",\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Bhumika Indulia\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State | SCC Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State","og_description":"Punjab and Haryana High Court: Ritu Bahri, J. allowed the petition and modified the award according to the prevalent rate in accordance","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/","og_site_name":"SCC Times","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/","article_published_time":"2019-08-17T10:00:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-08-23T05:58:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1330,"height":887,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/panjab_and_hariyana_high_court.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Bhumika Indulia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Bhumika Indulia","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/","name":"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State | SCC Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-08-17T10:00:47+00:00","dateModified":"2019-08-23T05:58:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/08\/17\/ph-hc-amount-of-compensation-for-motor-accident-claim-to-be-calculated-according-to-minimum-wage-prevalent-in-the-state\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"P&H HC | Amount of compensation for motor accident claim to be calculated according to minimum wage prevalent in the State"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/","name":"SCC Times","description":"Bringing you the Best Analytical Legal News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a","name":"Bhumika Indulia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Me-150x150.jpg","caption":"Bhumika Indulia"},"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/author\/editor_1\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":214634,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/05\/14\/pat-hc-court-interference-with-quantum-of-compensation-granted-by-motor-accident-claims-tribunal-held-not-warranted\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":0},"title":"Pat HC | Court interference with\u00a0quantum of compensation granted by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, held not warranted","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"May 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Patna High Court: The Bench of S. Kumar, J. dismissed an appeal filed by the insurance company against the judgment and award passed by Motor Vehicle Accident Claim Tribunal, Bihar. The son of claimant died on the spot when a vehicle dashed against him. As a result, he filed a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":220606,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/10\/09\/pat-hc-insurance-company-granted-the-right-to-recover-half-of-compensation-amount-from-the-owner-insurer-of-the-other-vehicle-involved-in-an-accident-caused-due-to-composite-negligence\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":1},"title":"Pat HC | Insurance Company granted right to recover half of compensation amount from owner\/ insurer of other vehicle involved in an accident caused due to composite negligence","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"October 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Patna High Court: S. Kumar, J. dismissed the appeal filed by the insurance company on the grounds that the parties were liable severally as well as jointly. Although the company had the right to recover such compensation paid from the other party involved in the accident for which insurance was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":256013,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/10\/26\/if-the-deceased-is-a-child-of-tender-age-how-is-the-amount-of-compensation-dealt-with-in-motor-accidents-cases\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":2},"title":"[MV Act] Jhar HC | If the deceased is a child of tender age, how is the amount of compensation dealt with in motor accidents cases?","author":"Editor","date":"October 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Jharkhand High Court: Ananda Sen, J.,\u00a0 dismissed and held that the amount which has been awarded by the Tribunal with the interest thereupon is just and fair compensation. The facts of the case are such that the deceased Shashi Kumar Mahato was dashed by an unnumbered maruti omni van which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":279552,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/12\/14\/motor-accident-compensation-marginalised-persons-socio-economic-condition-claimant-liberal-approach-supreme-court-legal-research-updates-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":3},"title":"Disability adds to discrimination faced by persons from society’s marginalised sections; Courts must award motor accident compensation liberally: SC\u00a0","author":"Prachi Bhardwaj","date":"December 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Supreme Court observed that the persons from marginalised sections of the society already face severe discrimination due to a lack of social capital, and a new disability more often than not compounds to such discrimination.","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Disability-adds-to-the-discrimination-faced-by-persons-from-marginalised-sections-of-society-Courts-must-award-motor-accident-compensation-liberally.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":247718,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/04\/28\/quantum-of-compensation\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":4},"title":"All HC | Whether the Tribunal is justified in re-deciding the quantum of compensation when it isn\u2019t even disputed? HC answers","author":"Editor","date":"April 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Dr Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Ajit Singh, JJ., addressed an interesting question as to whether the tribunal could due to the prolonged litigation re-decide compensation already awarded in an accident claim or it was to confine itself to the objection raised by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265592,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/04\/19\/motor-accident-case-mv-act-injury-compensation-bombay-high-court\/","url_meta":{"origin":218276,"position":5},"title":"[Motor Accident Case] Determination of a just compensation cannot be equated to be a bonanza: Bom HC","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"April 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Bombay High Court: Addressing a dispute with regard to the percentage of permanent disability and determination of compensation, Shrikant D. Kulkarni, J., remarked that determination of a just compensation cannot be equated to be a bonanza. The Appellant was serving as a cleaner on the appellant\u2019s vehicle which was punctured\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bombay High Court","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bombay-HC.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bombay-HC.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bombay-HC.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bombay-HC.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bombay-HC.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}