New Delhi: Last week, the Supreme Court fixed a two-month deadline for the General Insurance Council (GIC) to develop a mobile app for speedy settlement of third-party claims for compensation in case of road accidents. Police would have to upload the details of the accident on the app within 48 hours of it taking place.
The police must then file a detailed report within 90 days. After this, insurance companies would have 30 days to compensate the claimant with a fixed amount, or else fight it out in court.
A bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul rejected GIC’s plea for “some enlarged time” to develop the app, saying that if the insurance companies are not able to do it, the court would call upon the government to do so, and impose the app on the insurance companies.
The top court order of 16 November is an outcome of 10-month-long deliberations on how to expedite cases of compensation pending before the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT).
In its order, the court noted that the bulk of MACT cases were pending in various MACT courts across the country, with more than 25 per cent being over three years old. Thirty-five per cent of all cases pending in Maharashtra’s trial courts are insurance claims arising from motor accidents, the order also noted.
Following an earlier order issued on 26 October, all stakeholders such as the police, insurance companies and MACT courts will have to use the application once it is developed.
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