Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), 14 -- Insurance Claim - Delay in repudiating of more than one year - Amounts to deficiency in rendering service - The insurance companies should settle the claims within 3-4 months of the claim filed...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2, 14 -- Insurance Claim - Appointment of second surveyor - Practice deprecated...........
Punjab Security of Land Tenures Act, Section 2(3) -- Tenants permissible area, claim for - Objection that not a tenant on the land in dispute on 15.4.1953 - No one shown in cultivation of any Khasra number for the year 1952 - 53 - Person shown as a tenant on the land from 1953 - 54 - Can be presumed that he was cultivating the land in earlier years also - Should be..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(g), 14(1)(d) -- Telephone -Delay in setting the telephone in order - 20 days delay occurred in removing the underground cable fault not explained - Negligence is writ large on the part of the Telephone Department - A sum of Rs.15,00/- as compensation awarded by the District Forum is not at all excessive to call for interference..........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d), 2(1)(g), 14(1)(d) -- Electricity Disconnection - The complainant tenant in the premises - Being beneficiary covered under the definition of consumer - The disconnection allegedly done on the fictitious report obtained by the landlord with the connivance of the officials of the Electricity Board - No notice issued to the..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 39, Rule 1, 2 -- Partnership - Suit for winding up partnership business and interim injunction - Validity of partnership disputed on the admission of plaintiff that she was not to share losses of the firm but was entitled to profits - Validity of partnership cannot be determined in interim proceedings - However, a direction restraining the..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 34, Interest Act, 1978, Section 2(a), 3, Arbitration Act, 1940, Section 5, 20 -- Arbitration award - Arbitrator can award future interest from the date of passing of the award till the date of decree or the date of payment whichever is earlier - If the transaction is commercial in nature, award of 12% interest is reasonable...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d)(ii) -- Consumer - Minor child admitted into the appellant hospital for treatment - Child as well as the parents are both consumers so as to claim compensation under the Act...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d)(ii) -- Consumer - Not only the person who hires the services but also the beneficiary of such services which beneficiary is other than the person who hires the services is a consumer...........
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Section 2(1)(d)(ii), 21 -- Consumer - Medical Negligence - Young child taken to hospital by his parents - Treatment of child by doctor - The parents would come within the definition of consumer having hired his services - The young child would also become a consumer under the inclusive definition being a beneficiary of such services...........
