National Insurance Company Ltd. Office Nagpur and Kolhapur through Its Regional Manager v. Mrs. Teju @ Deepa Vitthal Kamble and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Nagpur Bench; judge Abhay J. Mantri; order dated 24.07.2025; Civil Application CAF No. 1433 of 2024 and CAF No. 4451 of 2019 in First Appeal No. 759 of 2022; parties: National Insurance Company Ltd. (appellant, advocate V.B. Maldhure) v. Mrs. Teju @ Deepa Vitthal Kamble and others (respondent Nos. 1-3, advocate S.W. Sambre); forum below: Commissioner under the Employees' Compensation Act/Labour Court, Nagpur; subjects: amendment of appeal memo to substitute cause of death 'Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy disease' for 'heart attack', reliance on opinion of Civil Surgeon and M.M.S. Officer Dr. M.S. Gedam; acceptance of appellant's deposit of entire decretal amount with interest; both civil applications allowed; matter listed after four weeks.
What did the court decide?
(i) Leave granted to the applicant/appellant (National Insurance Company Ltd.) to amend the appeal memo in First Appeal No. 759 of 2022 so as to plead death due to 'Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy disease' instead of a heart attack; amendment to be carried out within two weeks and a copy of the amended memo supplied to the other side within two weeks thereafter. (ii) Civil Application (CAF) No. 4451 of 2019 allowed in terms of its prayer Clause (1), the appellant's statement of deposit of the entire decretal amount with interest before the Labour Court, Nagpur/Commissioner having been accepted. The main appeal is listed after four weeks and is not finally disposed of by this order.