Background

A claimant filed a case against an insurance company and other two defendants requesting the insurance company to pay him 20000 Egyptian Pounds as compensation for damage which had resulted from a car accident. The claimant said that the car was insured by the company and was driven by the second defendant.

The court ruled that the company should pay the claimant 20000 Egyptian Pounds.

The company appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

Decision

The company appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and said in its grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law and that it had maintained before the court that the case should be dismissed due to the statute of limitations because the claimant had filed the case three years after the issue of the criminal ruling but the court had dismissed this defence.