Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 444 · Decided 1 April 2019
Oriental Insurance Company Limited v. Mahendra Construction
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 444 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 673
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3359/2019
- Decided
- 1 April 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Insurance - Insured - Duty of Disclosure - Respondent- Complainant purchased hydraulic excavator machine in 2004-05- Excavator was insured with New India Assurance Company Limited (earlier insurer) from 15 Nov. 2004 to 14 Nov. 2005 - Claim lodged on 12 April 2005 on set on fire by Naxalites - Claim settled - On 10 Oct. 2006, the excavator was insured with the appellant-insurer from 11 Oct. 2006 to 10 Oct. 2007 - Excavator allegedly caught fire on 15 Oct. 2006 - Insurance claim repudiated on the ground that u/para.25(g) of the printed
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