Tie compensation to functional disability, says SC

The doctor certified her 90% disabled, but a bench held that she was suffering from 100% functional disabilityNEW DELHI: Holding that functional disability faced by a road accident victim should be the deciding factor for granting compensation and not doctor-certified medical disability, SC has granted compensation of Rs 83.3 lakh to a minor who met with an accident when she was just six months old and is now suffering from severe spinal cord and neurological injuries.Though the doctor certified her 90% disabled, a bench held that she was suffering from 100% functional disability and quantified the compensation on that basis."...In the given facts of a case, a lesser physical disability may result in a much higher functional disability and in an appropriate case, even amount to complete lo