Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1098 · Decided 1 September 2009
New India Assurance Company LTD . v. M/S. Zuari Industries LTD. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1098 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 1101
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4436/2004
- Decided
- 1 September 2009
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
• • Insurance - Fire insurance policy - Damages - Claim for - Short circuit in electric switch board in the factory c resulting in flashover producing over currents - Stoppage of electric supply - Damage to boiler and other equipments - Repudiation of on the ground ., that damage to boiler not caused by fire - Award of damages .,,(_ by National Commission - Con-ectness of - Held: Con-ect -:- D °'I Flashoverlfire was the proximate cause of damage - Claim is maintainable even if the fire was for fraction of a second - Policy cannot be
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