Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 403 · Decided 26 March 2019
The Branch Manager National Insurance CO. LTD. v. SMT. Mousumi Bhattacharjee & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 403 · [2019] 5 S.C.R. 46
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2614/2019
- Decided
- 26 March 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 - Insurance policy claim - Deficiency of service - Whether death due to malaria occasioned by a mosquito bite in Mozambique constituted a death due to accident - Insurance policy accident - The insured was working in Assam and thereafter took employment in Mozambique where he was diagnosed with encephalitis malaria and died due to multi-organ failure - Claim filed by spouse and father of the deceased - Plea of insurer was that death due to malaria caused
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