JUDGMENT :

R.Subbiah, J.

The appeal is heard through video conferencing.

2. This appeal has been filed by the Insurance Company as against the award dated 30.10.2018 made in MCOP.No. 501 of 2016 on the file of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal/I Additional District Judge, Tiruppur questioning the quantum of compensation awarded by the Tribunal.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking before the Tribunal.

4. The claim petition was filed by the respondents 1 to 6 herein, who are the wife, daughters and mother of the deceased Palanisamy. It is the case of the claimants that on 17.11.2015 at about 10.20 a.m. the deceased was riding a Moped bearing Registration No.TN-33-AX-4932 on the left side of the Uthukuli to Tiruppur Road. While he was nearing Krishna Nagar Koolipalayam Nall Road, a Tata ACE vehicle bearing Registration No. TN-30-AH-5913, owned by the seventh respondent and insured with the appellant/Insurance Company, came from the opposite direction and dashed against the Moped. In the said accident, the deceased sustained grievous head