OSC 1305/2016

This case involved the assessment of compensation in a personal injury claim against an insurance company following a road traffic accident.

Background

A claimant filed a case against an insurance company before the court. He requested the court to order the company to pay him 15000 Rials ascompensation. He said that his son was injured in a car accident and that the car was insured by the company at the time.

The court ruled that the company should pay the claimant 3600 Rials.

The claimant and the company appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court dismissed the two appeals and upheld the appealed ruling.

The claimant appealed the ruling before the supreme court. He said in his grounds of appeal that the appealed ruling had erred in the application of law. He said that the court had failed to consider all the injuries properly. He said that the court failed to compensate for all damages which had happened in the accident.

Decision