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Udupi, Aug 9: The district client court docket has ordered an insurance coverage firm to pay Rs 10 lac together with curiosity to a client for deficiency of service and adopting delaying techniques.

On December 24, 2018, the late Santhosh Shetty, a resident of Hebri had taken a private accident insurance coverage coverage from Common Sompo Common Insurance coverage Firm. Santhosh died on November 1, 2019, whereas taking bathtub in a river by drowning. His heirs Pushpa Shetty and Divya Shetty approached the insurance coverage firm and submitted an insurance coverage declare on Santhosh Shetty’s demise. The corporate rejected the declare on grounds that the candidates had submitted it late.

Santhosh Shetty’s heirs filed a grievance with the district dispute settlement authority’s court docket via a lawyer.

After listening to the arguments and analyzing the information, the court docket ordered the insurance coverage firm to pay Rs 10 lac in the direction of accident insurance coverage declare based mostly on the Insurance coverage Regulatory Authority of India’s round and Nationwide Authority’s judgment on the matter.

The court docket additionally directed the corporate to pay Rs 25,000 to the petitioner as curiosity for the time misplaced between declare rejection date till the judgment date and Rs 10,000 as court docket bills inside 30 days.

The judgment was pronounced by District Shopper Court docket chairman Sunil T M Reddy, members Sujatha B Koralli and Prema. Vivekananda Mallya of Karkala argued the case in favour of the petitioners.

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