Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 288 · Decided 11 April 2011
Sri Nagarajappa v. Divisional Manager, Oriental Insurance CO. LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 288 · [2011] 6 S.C.R. 70
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3203/2011
- Decided
- 11 April 2011
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Motor Vehicles Act Section 166
Headnote
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 - s.166 - Compensation - C Adequacy of- Due to motor accident, appellant-claimant, who was working as a coolie, suffered from gross deformity of his left upper limb - Doctor assessed permanent residual physical disability of the appellant's upper limb at 68% and 22-23% - Tribunal took the income of D appellant to be Rs.3,0001- p.m., his disability at 20%, and his age as 55 years (for which it adopted a multiplier of 11) and accordingly calculated loss of future income to be Rs. 79,2001- and total compensation to be Rs.1, 70,2001- - High Court, however,
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