JUDGMENT :

R. SUBBIAH, J.

This matter is heard through Video Conferencing.

2. Not being satisfied with the quantum of compensation awarded by the Tribunal in and by its judgment and decree dated 12.11.2019 passed in M.C.O.P.No.7123 of 2013 on the file of IV Small Causes Court, Chennai, appellant/claimant has filed the present appeal.

3. For the sake of convenience, the appellant herein is referred to as ‘claimant’ and the second respondent is referred to as ‘Insurance Company’.

4. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

On 20.02.2013 at about 11.45 p.m., while the claimant was on his duty as a cleaner in a lorry bearing Registration No.TN-04-B-5868, which was proceeding on the Redhills-Karanodai Joint Road, another Lorry bearing Registration No.KA-39-5387, belonging to first respondent and insured with the Insurance Company, came in a rash and negligent manner and dashed against the Lorry in which the claimant was travelling, as a result of which the claimant sustained grievous injuries viz., crush injuries over his right leg, right femur, head, left leg and multiple injuries all