Motor Accident Compensation

Nur Ahamad Abdulsab Kanavi vs Abdul Munaf 2025 INSC 191 - Motor Accident Compensation - Income - Deceased's Wife Statement

Motor Accident Compensation - Reliance placed on the statement of the deceased’s wife therein to establish the income of the person. (Para 9) 2025 INSC 191 Nur Ahamad Abdulsab Kanavi vs Abdul Munaf - Motor Accident Compensation - Income - Deceased's Wife Statement2025 INSC 191 Nur Ahamad

Seema Rani vs Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. 2025 INSC 192 - Motor Accident Compensation- Married Sons & Daughters

Motor Accident Compensation -Major married and earning sons of the deceased, being legal representatives, have a right to apply for compensation, and the Tribunal must consider the application, irrespective of whether the representatives are fully dependent on the deceased or not- There is no reason to exclude a married daughter

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Shyam Prasad Nagalla vs Andhra Pradesh State Board Transport Corporation 2025 INSC 193 - Motor Accident Compensation - Exchange Rate Fixation

Motor Accident Compensation - Date of filing of the claim petition is the proper date for fixing the rate of exchange for computing compensation- The multiplier for a person aged 43 must be 14. No exception is made for a person earning in foreign currency.(Para 9-10) 2025 INSC 193

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2025 INSC 180 Prakash Chand Sharma vs Rambabu Saini - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - If the Tribunal has reason to doubt the medical certificate, the option available before it is to have the disability re-assessed but it could not have gone into the details of the determination of disability as the opinion of the Medical Board, being an opinion of

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Deepak Singh Alias Deepak Chauhan Vs Mukesh Kumar 2025 INSC 179 - Motor Accident Compensation - Notional Income - Engineering Student

Motor Accident Compensation - The notional income of an Engineering student cannot be equated to that of an unskilled worker- Referred to Navjot Singh v. Harpreet Singh. (Para 7) 2025 INSC 179 Deepak Singh Alias Deepak Chauhan Vs Mukesh Kumar - Motor Accident Compensation - Notional Income - Engineering Student2025

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Jitendra vs Sadiya 2025 INSC 166 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - Notifications under the Minimum Wages Act can be a guiding factor in cases where there is no evidence available to evaluate monthly income. (Para 10) 2025 INSC 166 Jitendra vs Sadiya - Motor Accident Compensation2025 INSC 166 Jitendra vs Sadiya - Motor Accident Compensation.pdf126 KBdownload-circle

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Hare Krushna Mahanta vs Himadari Sahu 2025 INSC 165 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - The objective when granting compensation under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, is to ensure just and fair compensation is paid to the aggrieved party. 2025 INSC 165 Hare Krushna Mahanta vs Himadari Sahu- Motor Accident Compensation2025 INSC 165 Hare Krushna Mahanta vs Himadari Sahu- Motor Accident

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Maya Singh vs Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd. 2025 INSC 161 - Motor Accident Compensation - Multiplier

Motor Accident Compensation - Multiplier - Normally Courts and Tribunals have to apply the multiplier as per the judgement of this Court in Sarla Verma v. DTC (2009) 6 SCC 121 : 2009 INSC 506 - Any deviation from the same warrants special reasons to be recorded. while calculating the compensation,

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M. Nithya vs SBI General Insurance Company Limited - Motor Accident Compensation- Contributory Negligence Plea In Appeal

Motor Accident Compensation - When the Tribunal did not even frame an issue on contributary negligence, the High Court ought not to have considered that argument in order to reduce the compensation awarded. Even otherwise the Insurance Company did not lead any evidence on this aspect nor insisted for framing

Civil Law

S Vishnu Ganga vs Oriental Insurance Company Limited - Motor Accident Compensation - Income Tax Returns - 2025 INSC 123

Motor Accident Compensation - Income Tax Returns are reliable evidence to assess the income of a deceased. (Para 11) Summary: Supreme Court restores MACT award and sets aside HC judgment that had reduced compensation- Merely because the appellants (claimants) stepped into the shoes of the deceased, by such factum itself,

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Karamjit Singh vs Amandeep Singh - Motor Accident Compensation - Carpentry

Motor Accident Compensation - Carpentry is a skilled job- A carpenter is somebody who uses wood and constructs objects for daily use or beauty or in certain countries even housing. A normal person who is not trained in the craft certainly cannot undertake these activities with the level of precision

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T. Rajamoni vs Manager, Oriental Insurance Company Limited 2025 INSC 107 -Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - The employability of a person with serious head injuries is a circumstance which ought to have been kept in the perspective for determining the loss of income. (Para 11) T. Rajamoni vs Manager, Oriental Insurance Company Limited 2025 INSC 107 -Motor Accident Compensation T. Rajamoni vs

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Jayanandan vs Varkey - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation - The ascertainment of permanent disability, more specifically its effect on actual earning capacity has been discussed in Rajkumar Vs. Ajay Kumar (2011) 1 SCC 343- Pain and suffering is not only on account of physical pain but also suffering on account of what has been lost

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Atul Tiwari vs Regional Manager, Oriental Insurance Company Limited 2025 INSC 29 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation -Jurisprudence on the assessment of compensation to motor accidents’ victims discussed- Money cannot substitute a life lost but an effort has to be made for grant of just compensation so far as money can compensate- The basis for assessment of all damages for person injury is compensation.

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New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Sonigra Juhi Uttamchand 2025 INSC 15 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation -Monthly income could be fixed taking into account the tax returns only if the details of payment of tax are appropriately brought into evidence so as to enable the Tribunal/Court to calculate the income in accordance with law.(Para 8) In the case of self-employed persons

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ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd. vs Rajani Sahoo 2025 INSC 6 - Motor Accident Compensation - Police Records

Motor Accident Compensation Claims -The question regarding negligence which is essential for passing an award in a motor vehicle accident claim should be considered based on the evidence available before the Tribunal. If the police records are available before the Tribunal, taking note of the purpose of the Act it

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T.C. John @ Yohannan (D) Vs V.J. Antony 2024 INSC 1016 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation Claims -The appellants-claimants, for the period between 22.06.2016 to 13.07.2023, have been denied interest on the ground that there was delay on the part of the counsel for the appellants-claimants in not supplying the copy of the paper book to the counsel for

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Geeta Dubey vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd. 2024 INSC 998 - Motor Accident Compensation Claims - S 173 MV Act

Motor Accident Compensation Claims - In claim cases, in case the accident is disputed or the involvement of the vehicle concerned is put in issue, the claimant is only expected to prove the same on a preponderance of probability and not beyond reasonable doubt. (Para 20) Motor Vehicles Act-Section 173-

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New India Assurance Co. Ltd. vs Velu - Motor Accident Compensation Claim - Delayed FIR

Motor Accident Compensation Claim - Setting aside a Madras HC judgment, SC observed: Merely because the FIR has been delayed a claim cannot be rejected but in the present case considering that all the available evidences points out towards a skid and fall and not a motor accident, the delayed

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Balwinder Kaur Vs Punjab State - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation Claim - Offering of compassionate appointment to a family member of the deceased cannot be a ground to dislodge a claim for death under the Motor Vehicles Act. (Para 13) Summary: Police constable died in an accident in 1992 -MACT dismissed the petition seeking compensation filed in

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Sartaj Singh vs United India Insurance Company Ltd - Motor Accident Compensation Claims

Motor Accident Compensation Claims - In cases of motor-accident; while awarding compensation, we must account for future prospects as well. It is not just or fair to assume that the deceased would not progress further in life and accept a stagnant amount of income while computing compensation. In light of

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Baby Sakshi Greola vs Manzoor Ahmad Simon 2024 INSC 963 - Motor Accident Compensation

Motor Accident Compensation Claims- Courts or tribunals assessing compensation in a case of 100% disability, especially where there is mental disability also, should take a liberal view of the mater when awarding compensation- While awarding this amount, courts are not only taking into account physical disability but also mental disability

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Varghese George @ Jomon (D) Vs United India Insurance Co. Ltd. 2024 INSC 912

Motor Accident Compensation - Appeal against HC order reducing compensation - Allowing appeal, SC held: The award of the Tribunal is restored assessing the compensation at ?51,58,458/-. Read Judgment

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K.S. Muralidhar Vs Subbulakshmi 2024 INSC 886 - Motor Accident Compensation - Pain & Suffering

Motor Accident Compensation - Pain and Suffering - The concept of just compensation rests on the principle of restitutio ad integrum which means restoration to the original condition, as far as possible, taking the person to whom damages are awarded, to a position as if the incident or in this

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Rushi @ Ruchi Thapa vs Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd 2024 INSC 837

Motor Accident Compensation -Allowing appeal, Supreme Court noted: minimum wages payable to a skilled workman for quantifying the notional loss of earnings of the child. In this case, the High Court adopted the minimum wages payable to unskilled labour, i.e., ?169 per day, but there is no justification for