Driver went home on feeling chest pain, thereafter admitted to hospital and died. Death could not be attributed to “ accident arising out of and in the course of employment.”

Held. When the death of a deceased did not take place in the course of his employment, no nexus between the employment and the death which took place following heart attack hence the impugned order fastening the liability on the insurance company will have to be set aside.

Branch Manager, United India Insurance Company Limited, Hunsur vs Srinivasa and others 2007 LLR 481 Karnataka High Court

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