Supreme Court of India

I. C. Sharma v. The Oriental Insurance Co. Ltd.

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Reported as [2018] 1 S.C.R. 571
Bench Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 10 January 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the claimant should be awarded Rs.25,000/- towards compensation and litigations expenses etc.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Insurance – Householder Insurance – Appellant purch ased a householder insurance policy from the respondent- Insurance Company, wherein coverage of articles/items in the house of the appellant was “as per list” – However, “as per list” policies were discontinued by the respondent and fresh policies wer e issued for consolidated amounts, which were also taken by appell ant– After an incident of burglary in appellant’s house, he claimed house holder insurance – Plea of Insurance Company that a large number of items claimed to be stolen were not insured and there was a lot of under-insurance –

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