The Madras High Court recently upheld the compensation awarded to the second wife of a man who died in a road accident by stating that establishing loss of dependency is sufficient for claiming compensation under Section 166(1) of the Motor Vehicles Act. The court emphasized that dependency, not legal heirship, is the basis for entitlement
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