Insurance Company Cannot Raise Delay As Ground For Repudiation For The First Time Before Consumer Forum: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has observed that an insurance company cannot raise delay as a ground for repudiation for the first time before the consumer forum, if it has not taken delay in intimation as a specific ground in letter of repudiation. Two issues were considered by the Apex Court in this case [Saurashtra Chemicals Ltd. vs. National Insurance Co. Ltd]. One, whether the respondent-insurer...