A. Hariprasad, J.

These three appeals are heard together and disposed by this common judgment as the questions of law arising are common.

2. M.A.C.A. No.1373 of 2015 is filed by the United India Insurance Company Ltd., the 3rd respondent in O.P. (MV) No.93 of 2010 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, North Paravur.

3. In M.A.C.A. No.662 of 2016, the award passed in O.P.(MV) No.56 of 2015 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Taliparamba is assailed by owner of the vehicle involved in the road accident, who was the 1st respondent before the Tribunal.

4. M.A.C.A. No.1678 of 2016 is against the award passed in O.P. (MV) No.959 of 2007 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-III, Pathanamthitta. The 3rd respondent in the claim petition (National Insurance Company Ltd.) is the appellant herein.

5. Case pleaded in O.P.(MV) No.56 of 2015 is that on 16.11.2005, while the claimant was accompanying the goods carried in a goods auto-rickshaw bearing No.KL-13 M-4943, the vehicle overturned and the claimant sustained extensive head injury, contusion on temporal region affecting the left ear, contusion on the neck, shoulder and left thigh. According t