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SC raps insurance cos for filing needless appeals
Hindustan Times Delhi
|October 22, 2025
The Supreme Court has come down hard on insurance companies for filing needless appeals in workmen's compensation cases on technical grounds even when they do not dispute their liability under insurance contracts -- a practice, it said, only delayed justice for injured workers or their families.
The court warned against contesting workmen's compensation cases if liability is not disputed.
A bench of justices Manoj Misra and N Kotiswar Singh imposed a 50,000 cost on The New India Assurance Company Ltd, calling its appeal before the Calcutta high court “unnecessary” and holding that it caused undue delay in the payment of compensation to a driver who had suffered injuries while on duty.
“We must express our anguish at the practice of insurance companies unnecessarily filing appeals by raising technical pleas more so when they do not deny their ultimate liability under the contract of insurance,” said the bench, directing that the penalty be paid to the claimant within a month.
This story is from the October 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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