JUDGMENT :

R. Subbiah, J.

(Prayer: C.M.A.No.1528 of 2020 filed under Section 173 of The Motor Vehicles Act against the Judgment and Decree dated 31.07.2019 passed in M.C.O.P. No. 7259 of 2014 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (II Small Causes Court) Chennai.)

1. All these appeals are filed by the appellant/Insurance Company, questioning the common award dated 31.07.2019 passed by the Tribunal in MCOP Nos. 7259, 7260, 7261, 7262, 7263, 7265, 7266 and 7271 of 2014 thereby directing the appellant to pay the compensation amount to the claimants.

2. Before the Tribunal, eight Original Petitions have been filed by the survivors as well as by the legal heirs of the deceased in the accident that had taken place on 25.12.2006. The said Claim Petitions have been filed by them, for the injuries sustained by themselves in the accident as well as for the death of their mother, father or brother as the case may be, of those who accompanied them in the vehicle. In other words, on the fateful day, in the accident that had taken place on 25.12.2006, five persons died and three perso