Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1135 · Decided 14 September 2009
S. Suresh v. Oriental Insurance CO. LTD. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1135 · [2009] 14 S.C.R. 990
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7641/2009
- Decided
- 14 September 2009
- Bench
- D.K. JAIN, H.L. DATTU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act; Workmen's Compensation Act
Headnote
,__. Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923: " c ss. 2(1)(1), 4(1)(c)(ii) - Schedule I - 'Total disablement' - Permanent disability - Loss of 100% earning capacity - Compensation -Lorry driver in an accident got injured - His . leg amputed up to knee - Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation D and awarding the claimant Rs. 5, 20, 5841- High Court -J.- accepting the plea of Insurance Company that loss of a leg on amputation amounted to 50% reduction in earning capaity reduced compensation by 50% - Held: On account of amputation of right leg of claimant below knee, he is rendered E
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