https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465145 SC held that a company is a "person" under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, applying a liberal construction and relying on subsequent inclusion of "body corporate" in the 2019 Act to cure the earlier anomaly. It rejected the insurer's preliminary objections that the insured company was not a consumer and that the fire insurance policy was for a purely commercial purpose, distinguishing prior precedents relating to commercial policies. Noting that surveyor and investigator reports were not timely supplied and were not effectively rebutted, SC found denial of adequate opportunity. The complaint was remitted to the National Commission for fresh adjudication on merits after permitting rebuttal to those reports. en-us Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:58:54 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465145 SC held that a company is a "person" under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, applying a liberal construction and relying on subsequent inclusion of "body corporate" in the 2019 Act to cure the earlier anomaly. It rejected the insurer's preliminary objections that the insured company was not a consumer and that the fire insurance policy was for a purely commercial purpose, distinguishing prior precedents relating to commercial policies. Noting that surveyor and investigator reports were not timely supplied and were not effectively rebutted, SC found denial of adequate opportunity. The complaint was remitted to the National Commission for fresh adjudication on merits after permitting rebuttal to those reports. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=465145