Monday, June 11, 2018

Court asks insurance firm to pay ₹22L to accident victim’s kin

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
11.06.2018


Madurai: Three years after an engineer, who was set to leave abroad for work, died after being hit by a minitruck near Madurai, the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Sivaganga, has directed the insurance firm to pay his family ₹22 lakh. K Ilamaraja of Iluppakudi in Sivaganga district was on Madurai-Sivaganga main road when the mini-truck hit his bike, on May 31, 2015. Ilamraja died at the Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai.

In a petition seeking compensation, his family said Ilamaraja completed electrical and electronics engineering and got a job in Muscat. His visa formalities were on when he died.

The insurance firm, in its counter petition, said the truck driver did not possess valid driving licence and that the owner allowed him to drive the vehicle despite this. Hence it was not liable to indemnify the vehicle owner and compensate the petitioners.

However, documentary evidence proved that the driver had a valid driving licence and that the vehicle was insured with the company at the time of the accident. Sivaganga chief judicial magistrate J Radhika, after hearing both sides and perusing the documents, directed the insurer to pay ₹22.85 lakh to the victim’s family at an interest of 7.5 %.

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