A hard object fell on him, causing his inability to work
1.6 million dirhams in compensation for a worker in a contracting company
A criminal ruling against the company and the engineer in charge convicted them of lack of precaution.
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The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance obligated a contracting company and an insurance company to pay a worker 1,600,000 dirhams as compensation for his exposure to a work injury that resulted in a disability of various proportions throughout his body.
The details of the case are due to the filing of a lawsuit in which a worker in a contracting company filed a lawsuit demanding that the company pay him four million dirhams, in compensation for the physical and psychological damage he suffered, indicating that during the performance of his work duties a solid object fell on him, which led to his disability of proportions The company and the engineer in charge of managing the site were charged with a different and varied body, and a criminal judgment was issued against the company and the engineer responsible for managing the site, indicting them on charges of lack of precaution and violating laws in providing the necessary protection for workers.
The papers indicated that the insurance company contracting with the defendant contracting company paid, during the course of the lawsuit, an amount of 205 thousand dirhams, according to the insurance contract concluded between them, which prompted the plaintiff to submit a memorandum requesting the court to amend his requests to oblige the company to pay three million and 795 dirhams to complete the compensation. For the material and psychological damages that were not duly calculated, but rather based on the contractual liability of the insurance company towards the defendant company, and did not cover the size of the damages suffered by the complainant.
The defendant contracting company demanded to oblige the insurance company to join with it in paying the sums that will be determined by the court, while the insurance company indicated that it would not be responsible for the rest of the plaintiff’s expenses because it paid the maximum agreed upon in the contract concluded with the company for which the plaintiff works.
The court ruled to oblige the employee's employer to pay him one million and 600 thousand dirhams in compensation for the material and moral damages that he suffered, provided that the insurance company is obligated to pay the company after that within the limits of half the amount decided in the case.
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