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January 22, 2025 3:15 pm

Motor Accident – Compensation – Future Prospects can be granted even in the cases pertaining to Notional Income – Once the victim has been proved to be employed at some venture, the necessary corollary is that they would be earning an income

Jan 6, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH KIRTI AND ANOTHER ETC. — Appellant Vs. ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED — Respondent ( Before : N.V. Ramana, S. Abdul Nazeer and Surya Kant,…

Accident

Rash and negligent driving by driver – Enhancement of compensation – Future prospects – – the claimants are entitled to an increase of 40% towards annual dependency on account of ‘future prospects’ given the undisputed age of the deceased – Appeal allowed.

Dec 13, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH ANITA SHARMA AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Surya Kant and Aniruddha…

Accident

Motor Vehicle – Accident – Death – authoritative pronouncement of this Court in National Insurance Co Ltd v. Pranay Sethi, (2017) 16 SCC 680, the claimants are entitled to an increase of 40% towards annual dependency on account of ‘future prospects’ given the undisputed age of the deceased – Non examination of witness -Courts should be only to analyze the material placed on record by the parties to ascertain whether the claimant’s version is more likely than not true. – Appeal allowed.

Dec 8, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH ANITA SHARMA AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Surya Kant and Aniruddha…

Accident

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 – Sections 14 and 15 – Expired Driving licence – Compensation – Liability – Insurance Company cannot be made liable in the event there was an expired licence held by the driver who was driving his employer’s insured vehicle.

Sep 25, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH BELI RAM — Appellant Vs. RAJINDER KUMAR AND ANOTHER — Respondent ( Before : Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Aniruddha Bose and Krishna Murari, JJ.…

Accident

Appellant was working as a typist/data entry operator in court premises in Delhi – High Court clearly erred in holding that compensation for loss of future prospects could not be awarded – High Court halved it to 45% on an entirely wrong application of some ‘proportionate’ principle (following the Pranay Sethi, (2017) 16 SCC 860 principle), which was illogical and is unsupportable in law

Sep 19, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH PAPPU DEO YADAV — Appellant Vs. NARESH KUMAR AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : L. Nageswara Rao, Krishna Murari and S. Ravindra…

Accident

HELD H C applied the multiplier of 16 considering age – H C erred in law in applying the multiplier of 16 instead of 17 – Compensation for Loss of Future Prospects can be awarded in Cases of Permanent disability – Court modify the award from Rs. 4,00,000 to Rs. 20,26,800/-.

Sep 19, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH LALAN D. @ LAL AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. THE ORIENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED — Respondent ( Before : Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Ajay…

Accident

Motor Accident Claims – Compensation – “Loss of Consortium” – Can be award to the legal heirs also.

Sep 7, 2020 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH THE NEW INDIA ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED — Appellant Vs. SMT. SOMWATI AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Ashok Bhushan and R. Subhash…

Accident

Motor Accident Compensation] For Age Group 15-25, Multiplier To Be Applied Is ’18’HELD multiplier applied was 13 while as per the judgment in Sarla Verma & Ors. v. Delhi Transport Corporation & Anr.- (2009) 6 SCC 121, it should have been 18.(b) The interest granted is of 6% which generally the interest being granted is of 9%”

Aug 1, 2020 sclaw

Motor Accident Compensation] For Age Group 15-25, Multiplier To Be Applied Is ’18’, Reiterates SC IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.2831 of 2020…

Accident

MACT – While applying the multiplier method in computing Motor Accident Compensation, future prospects on advancement in life and career are also to be taken into consideration. Sandeep Khanuja v. Atul Dande & Another (2017) 3 SCC 351 Followed DOD 27/7/2020

Jul 28, 2020 sclaw

In 2011, the bus, in which E.Priya was travelling collided with a lorry and she suffered a disability of 31.1% of the whole body. She filed ed a claim petition…

Accident

Accident Law–Learner’s Licence–Only because the appellant held a learner’s licence which had expired and was not valid on the date of accident, he cannot be said to be duly licensed.

Jul 12, 2020 sclaw

2009(2) LAW HERALD (SC) 849 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice S.B. Sinha The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dr. Mukundakam Sharma Civil Appeal No.1537 of 2009…

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