JUDGMENT :

ALOK ARADHE, J.

M.F.A.No.8057/2015 and M.F.A.No.8058/2017 have been filed by the insurance company under Section 173(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’, for short) against the judgment dated 15.06.2015 passed by the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as 'the tribunal' for short). Since, both the appeals arise out of the same accident and from the same judgment, they were heard analogously and are being decided by this common judgment.

2. Facts giving rise to the filing of the appeal briefly stated are that on 26.10.2007, the deceased Krishna Kumar and the deceased Shankar N Bhat were proceeding in a car bearing registration No.GJ-6-AH-122. When they reached near Sanabagate, a goods lorry bearing Registration No.KA-12-3556 which was being driven by its driver in a rash and negligent manner, came from the opposite direction and dashed against the vehicle of the deceased. As a result of the aforesaid accident, the deceased sustained multiple grievous injuries and succumbed to the same.

3. The claimants of the deceased Krishna Kumar in MFA 8057/2015 thereupon filed a petition under Section 166 of the Act claiming compens