Insurer ordered to compensate drunk driver's parents
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 @ 10:02 AM
AN INSURANCE company has been ordered to pay 120,500 euros to the parents of a drunk driver.
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by MAPFRE which alleges that the personal accident policy held by the driver, who died in a crash in 2002 when he was four times over the legal alcohol limit, is not valid where death or bodily injury are the direct result of the insured's own actions.
Back in 2008, the couurt of first instance in Negreira (A Coruña province) in the north-western region of Galicia, upheld the parents' claim and ordered MAPFRE to pay up.
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