Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 561 · Decided 9 August 2011
Ramachandrappa v. The Manager, Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Limited
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 561 · [2011] 9 S.C.R. 922
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6481/2011
- Decided
- 9 August 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act
Headnote
MOTOR VEHICLES ACT, 1988: c s. 166 - Motor accident - Permanent disability- Suitable compensation - Expression 'disability' - Connotation of - Claimant, a coolie, aged about 35 years, suffered grievous injuries - Permanent physical disability of right upper limb - D of Rs. 1, 13,9001- - High Court enhanced the compensation to Rs. 1,33,9001- - Held: Compensation to be awarded is not measured by the nature, location' or degree of the injury, but rather by the extent or degree of the incapacity resulting from the injury - Tribunals E are expected to
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