INSURANCE ACT
ACTION AGAINST COMMISSIONERS. LONDON, February 17. Mrs Parry, a widow, is suing the Jlnsuianoo Commissioners for £IOO, alleging that negligence to provide sanaftorium treatment caused her husband’s ’death. Medical evidence showed that the deceased had a chance of recovery nnder suitable treatment. WIDOW AWARDED £l5O. (Received February 18, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 18. The verdict in the case against the Insurance Commissioners was that the ,death was not due to negligence. Despite this, the jury awarded the j widow £l5O. Under the Insurance Act persons Insured have the right to be treated in sanatoria or otherwise if suffering from tuberculosis or such other diseases as the Local Government Board may think it desirable to treat. There is also power to extend this benefit to the dependents of insured persons.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19130219.2.83
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
131INSURANCE ACT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in