KCC 3902/2020

This case involved a claim by a company which had injured its workers for damages it had had to pay following a workplace injury of one of their employees. A key issue was the statute of limitations.

Background

A company filed a case against an insurance company before the court. The company requested the court to order the insurance company to pay 13,719 Dinars. The company said that it had insured its employees under an insurance policy signed with the insurance company. The company stated that one of its employees had filed a case against it to receive compensation for a work injury, and that the court had ordered it to pay the compensation. The company mentioned that it had added the insurance company to that case in order to pay the compensation. The company said that the court had dismissed its case against the insurance company at the time.

The insurance company said that the case should be dismissed due to the statute of limitation and that the dispute had already been settled.

The court ruled that the insurance company should pay the company the amount.