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1. Case Title: New India Assurance Co. Ltd v/s M/S Mudit Roadways (SC) Civil Appeal No 334/2023 Decided on 24.1.2023 by SC Legal Issue: Repudiation of claim on new grounds “it is a settled position that an insurance company cannot travel beyond the grounds mentioned
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Case Title: New India Assurance Co. Ltd v/s M/S Mudit Roadways (SC)
Civil Appeal No 334/2023
Decided on 24.1.2023 by SC
Legal Issue: Repudiation of claim on new grounds
“it is a settled position that an insurance company cannot travel beyond the grounds mentioned in letter of repudiation .If insurance has not taken delay in intimation as a specific ground in the letter of repudiation ,they cannot do so at the stage of hearing of the consumer complaint before NCDRC’
Referred case: Galada Power & Telecommunication Ltd V/S United India Insurance Co.Ltd (2016)
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