THE High Court handed down on Friday what is described as a landmark decision when it awarded a former software engineer the insurance sum of S$468,089.50 (RM1,029,796.90) after he became half-paralysed following a car accident in the United States during a work trip.
His former employer, Intergraph Systems South East Asia, was not allowed to deduct the expenses it incurred after Zhang Yi Guangs accident in June 2002.
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