Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 565 · Decided 24 April 2019
Reliance Life Insurance Co LTD & ANR. v. Rekhaben Nareshbhai Rathod
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 565 · [2019] 6 S.C.R. 733
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4261/2019
- Decided
- 24 April 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Consumer Protection Act
Headnote
Consumer Protection Act, 1986: Deficiency of service - Insurance policy - Repudiation of claim - Spouse of the respondent took a policy from insurance company - Two months later he submitted proposal for life insurance policy of the appellant- insurance company and in the query as to whether the proposer was currently insured or had applied for life insurance cover, his answer was in negative - Appellant issued a policy to him - After about a year he died - Appellant repudiated the claim of respondent on the ground of suppression of material fact
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