Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 521 · Decided 20 November 2012
National Insurance Company LTD. v. Balakrishnan & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 521 · [2012] 12 S.C.R. 565
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8163/2012
- Decided
- 20 November 2012
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 140, 147, 166
Headnote
A B Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - ss.140, 147 and 166 - Compensation claim - Insurance policy - Nature of - "Act policy" and "comprehensive/ package policy" - Distinction C between - Managing Director of company met with accident while travelling in a car registered in name of the - He filed compensation claim - Car in question insured with appellant-insurer- Dispute over liability of appellant-insurer - Held: In the instant case, the o insurance policy in question mentions the policy to be a "comprehensive policy" but there has to be a scanning of the terms of
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