Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 668 · Decided 3 October 2013
M. Mansoor & ANR. v. United India Insurance CO. LTD. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 668 · [2013] 10 S.C.R. 421
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8612/2013
- Decided
- 3 October 2013
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, C. NAGAPPAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - s.166 - Fatal accident - Claim A B for compensation - By parents of deceased - Tribunal granted compensation by deducting 113 towards personal and living C expenses of the deceased and by applying multiplier of 17 - High Court reduced the compensation amount by using view of the facts that the deceased was bachelor and the claimants were his parents, deduction towards personal and living expenses should have been 50% D and not 113rd - In view of the age of the deceased at the time of death i.e. 24 years, multiplier of 18 ought to have been applied -
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