Supreme Court of India
The New India Assurance Company Limited v. Smt. Somwati and Others
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Motor Vehicles – Accident – Claims – Compensation – Consortium – Appeals filed by Insurance Companies q uestioning the judgments of the High Courts arising out of the award by MACT with regard to the compensation awarded in favour of the claimant s under two heads, i.e. ‘loss of consortium’ and ‘los s of love and affection’ – The appellants submitted that the amount granted u nder the head ‘loss of love and affection’ is wholly without jurisdiction and that National Insurance Company Ltd. v. Pranay Sethi and Ors . has only referred to spousal consortium and no other con sortium, hence, there
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Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Sri Malakappa & Ors. v. The Iffco Tokio General Insurance Company Limited & Anr.
- 2025 New India Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Kamlesh and Others.
- 2022 Manusha Sreekumar & Ors. v. The United India Insurance Co. Ltd.
Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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