Oil worker’s family wins appeal for increased compensation

The fam­i­ly of an oil work­er, who died af­ter sus­tain­ing se­ri­ous in­juries in an on-the-job ac­ci­dent in 2012, has scored a ma­jor vic­to­ry in their bid for in­creased com­pen­sa­tion.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment late last week, Ap­pel­late Judges Prakash Moo­sai, Mark Mo­hammed, and Maria Wil­son up­held an ap­peal pur­sued by the fam­i­ly of Asim Arthur against Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed and Trin­i­ty Ex­plo­ration and Pro­duc­tion PLC.

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In the ap­peal, at­tor­neys Chanka Per­sads­ingh and Ted Roop­nar­ine, who rep­re­sent­ed Arthur's fam­i­ly, claimed that a High Court Mas­ter was wrong to have de­duct­ed a $939,006 fine, paid by the com­pa­nies for breach­es of the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Act (OS­HA), from the com­pen­sa­tion she as­sessed for the fam­i­ly.