KCC 25/1998
Type
Case
Court
Kuwait Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Kuwait
Taxonomy
Compensation, Rights & Duties of Employees & Employers, Civil Evidence, General Personal Injury
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
29 Jun 1998
Catchwords
Employee’s Rights and Duties – Workplace Accident – Evidence – Compensation – Personal Injury
This case involved a claim by an employee for compensation which had resulted because of a workplace accident. The employee was not awarded the compensation as he had failed to prove the disability was as a result of a workplace accident.
Background
An employee made a complaint against two companies before the Labour Department and requested the department pay him compensation for a disability which had resulted from a workplace accident. The department referred the case to the court.
The court rejected the case.
The employee appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.
Decision
The employee appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and stated in his grounds of appeal that the ruling had erred in the application of law and had insufficient evidence of causation because he had maintained before the court that the disability was as a result of a workplace accident but the court had ignored this defence.