Ahmedabad: A district consumer commission in Ahmedabad has directed United India Insurance Company Ltd to pay Rs 3 lakh, along with 7% annual interest, to a policyholder, ruling that the insurer’s rejection of his mediclaim for cancer treatment was arbitrary, illegal and invalid.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (Additional), Ahmedabad, passed the order on a…
Gurgaon: Haryana Real Estate Regulatory Authority (HRera) has directed a developer to refund the maintenance charges, which were collected before handing over possession of an apartment. It ruled that the amount was collected without legal backing and was liable to be refunded along with interest.On June 26, HRera (Gurgaon) told BPTP Ltd to refund Rs…
Vadodara: Slamming a private bank for forcefully taking possession of a borrower’s household goods, the Vadodara consumer forum directed it to pay the borrowed Rs 3 lakh as compensation. The forum called the bank’s conduct deficient in service and negligent.Manish Chauhan had taken a housing loan of Rs 12.38 lakh from HDFC in 2016 and…
Dharwad: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Dharwad, has granted relief to a senior citizen who was denied registration of a residential plot despite making substantial payment towards its purchase.Mallamma Doddagoudar, a resident of Haliyal Naka in Dharwad, had booked Plot No. 19 in the Golden City layout being developed at Sutagatti village. The plot…
Customer’s CIBIL score hit after LIC HFL PAN-linking error Kalaburagi: District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed LIC Housing Finance Ltd (LIC HFL) to pay Rs 40,000 to a customer after his CIBIL score was affected by a PAN linking error.It also ordered the company to correct the records, issue a no due certificate, and…
Surat: The Navsari District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (CDRC) directed a Chennai-based stem cell banking company to pay Rs 20 lakh to a 30-year-old woman after it failed to honour a contractual commitment related to stem cell treatment.The woman entered into an agreement with LifeCell International Pvt Ltd under which the stem cells of her…
Law Judge And Justice Symbol Ludhiana: The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered a solar power installation company to refund Rs 11 lakh to a consumer, Siraj Din Bali of Millerganj, for failing to install a solar plant at his house.Holding the firm guilty of deficiency in service and unfair trade practices, the commission…
Bengaluru: With a full-time job and an infant at home, a Bengaluru woman turned to an online domestic-help platform in search of dependable childcare support. But the house help failed to report for duty despite payment, setting off a dispute that ended up in consumer court which ordered the platform to pay over Rs 32,000…
Vadodara: She spent a harrowing time in the hospital while undergoing treatment for Covid during the pandemic in Vadodara in Nov 2020. When her husband Mukesh Shah filed an insurance claim of Rs 1.41 lakh, the insurer rejected it by arguing that she had suffered from tuberculosis 20 years ago which wasn’t declared while buying…
