JUDGMENT :

V.M. VELUMANI, J.

1. These Civil Miscellaneous Appeals are filed against the award dated 15.07.2015 made in M.C.O.P. Nos. 434, 432 and 433 of 2012 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Special District Court, Erode.

2. All these three appeals arise out of the same accident and common award and hence they are disposed of by this common judgment. The parties are referred to as per their respective ranks in the claim petitions for the sake of convenience.

3. The appellant/Insurance Company is 4th respondent in M.C.O.P. Nos. 434, 432 and 433 of 2012 on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Special District Court, Erode.

4. According to the claimant, on 19.02.2012, while she along with her husband, son, mother-in-law and other relatives were returning from Tirupathi in the car belonging to her deceased husband, the driver of the car/3rd respondent in the claim petitions who is the brother-in-law of the claimant, drove the car in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against the lorry parked in a negligent manner near the Government School at Chinnapat