The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DCDRC) directed an Insurance company to pay Rs 2.72 lakh to the complainant, as her husband had died due to a snake bite in Ratnagiri, which the company had earlier denied due to frivolous reasons.
 
The consumer court in Parel had directed the insurance company to pay the amount to the complainant in 30 days as the company could not prove that the complainant had not submitted some of the documents necessary for the insurance. 

The incident happened on June 20, 2017, when the victim, Dattaram Mandgavkar, a farmer by profession, was working in the field and was bitten by a venomous snake. He was taken to the hospital and the doctors declared him dead on arrival.