Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 42 · Decided 1 February 2000
Oberai Forwarding Agency v. New India Assurance CO. LTD. and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 42 · [2000] 1 S.C.R. 554
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 13387/1996
- Decided
- 1 February 2000
- Bench
- S.P. BHARUCHA, S.S.M. QUADRI, N. SANTOSH HEGDE (3-judge bench)
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act Section 2
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986: Sections 2(b )(i) and 3. C Consume~o is-Consignor--Consignment of goods-loss in tran- sit--Claim-Compensation paid by insurer to the consignor-In tum consi!J nor executed a letter of subrogation and power of attorney in favour of insurer empowering insurer to recover Consuma Fornm-Held not maintainable--Held in view of its contents "Letter of subrogation'' was a Letter of Assignmen~eing assignee the insurer D was not a beneficiary of the hired service-lnsurer held not consumer. E Insurance-Subrogation-Difference between subrogation and assign- ment.
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