{"id":101962,"date":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-nagarathna-vs-national-insurance-co-ltd-on-22-april-2009"},"modified":"2017-11-23T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T04:38:20","slug":"n-nagarathna-vs-national-insurance-co-ltd-on-22-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-nagarathna-vs-national-insurance-co-ltd-on-22-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"N Nagarathna vs National Insurance Co Ltd on 22 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
N Nagarathna vs National Insurance Co Ltd on 22 April, 2009<\/div>\n
Author: N.Kumar And A.S.Pachhapure<\/div>\n
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