Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Multiplier - Deceased was 38 years old at the time of accident - Multiplier of 15 is thus, appropriate...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Total compensation - Contributory negligence - Collusion between lorry and car - Death of driver of car - Keeping in view the age of deceased 38 years at the time of accident, multiplier of 15, deduction of 1/4th for personal expenses, addition of 40% for future prospects and various other heads under which claimants..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Dismissal of claim petition by holding that no eye witness was examined to prove rash and negligent driving - Eye witness will not be available in all cases - When FIR is lodged and charge sheet is filed there could not be a finding that negligence was not established - Order of Tribunal allowing claiming petition..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Multiplier - Deceased was 30 years old at the time of accident - Multiplier of 17 is thus, appropriate...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Income of deceased - Deceased was working in an unspecified job like a coolie - Accident occurred in the year 2010, 6 years from 2004 in which year Supreme Court had fixed 4,500 as income per month for a coolie, hence, it is presumed that a coolie in the year 2010 would have earned an income of 7500...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Future prospects - Self-employed person must be deemed to have had the future prospects at the rate of 40%, as held in Pranay Sethi case...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Total compensation - Keeping in view the age of deceased 30 years at the time of accident, multiplier of 17, income of deceased 7500, deduction of 1/4th for personal expenses, addition of 40% for future prospects and various other heads under which claimants entitled to compensation, total compensation of Rs.18,36,500,..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Determination of income of deceased - Deceased was engaged in trade as general merchant who dealt in scrap material and had a shop in big market - Parents of deceased and his wife were solely dependent on income earned by deceased for eking out their livelihood - Specific claim of father of deceased that..........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Future prospects - Deceased was a young person aged about 23 years and had a long future which he would have definitely earned more - 40% requires to be added towards future prospects while computing compensation under the head of loss of income to dependents...........
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, Section 166 -- Accident - Compensation - Multiplier - Deceased was about 23 years of age at the time of accident - Multiplier of 18 is thus, appropriate...........
