Delay in intimating Insurance Company or lodging Claim would not disentitle sanction of claim

It is common knowledge that the Insurance Companies in matter of Theft, Fire, Accident, Health Insurance Claims etc. shirk from their pecuniary liabilities on frivolous, hyper technical grounds but the Courts have univocally held that the claims cannot be rejected on technical grounds specially where there is delay in intimating Insurance Company or lodging delayed claims with them. It would be trite to refer to the case of Om Prakash vs Reliance General Insuarance in Civil Appeal No. 15611 of 2017  decided by the Apex Court on 4 October, 2017, wherein it was categorically held that delay in ...