Chapter XI — Insurance Of Motor Vehicles Against Third Party Risks
Section 155 — Effect of death on certain causes of action
Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (Act 59 of 1988)
Text of the section
Effect of death on certain causes of action.—Notwithstanding anything contained in section 306 of the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), the death of a person in whose favour a certificate of insurance had been issued, if it occurs after the happening of an event which has given rise to a claim under the provisions of this Chapter, shall not be a bar to the survival of any cause of action arising out of the said event against his estate or against the insurer.
Reproduced from the India Code text of the Act. Bracketed superscript numerals are the official footnote markers for earlier amendments.
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