Consortium.
In legal parlance, “consortium” is a compendious term
which encompasses 'spousal consortium', 'parental
consortium' and 'filial consortium ... Filial Consortium.
The amount of compensation to be awarded as
consortium will be governed by the principles of
awarding compensation under “Loss of Consortium
Court
interpreted consortium to be a compendious term, which encompasses (i)
spousal consortium, to be awarded to the surviving spouse, (ii) parental
consortium ... children upon the premature death of
their parents and (iii) filial consortium to be awarded to the parents for
the loss of their children. Recently
consortium to the 1st claimant and Rs.
40,000/- each towards filial consortium to the claimants 2 to 4; Rs.
15,000/- towards loss
towards funeral expenses
and Rs.40,000/- towards loss of consortium which is hereby
confirmed; towards loss of estate nothing is awarded by tribunal hence ... love and affection to
the appellants-4 & 5/parents as filial consortium, thus Rs.1,60,000/- is
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case, this Court awards each Rs.40,000/- towards
filial of consortium to the 1st and 5th claimant alone
Dependency Rs.6,07,000/-
b. Loss of Consortium Rs. 20,000/-
c. Loss of filial love Rs. 10,000/-
d. Loss of estate
