The insurer, National Insurance Company Limited, argued that the claimants, being the adult siblings-in-law of the woman, were not financially dependent on her. There is no hard and fast rule for defining the expression ‘dependent’,” the court said on August 10. The insurance company argued that the claimants, being adult siblings-in-law of the deceased, were not financially dependent on her. It contended that they had independent sources of income and could, at most, claim compensation under conventional or non-pecuniary heads. Person need not necessarily be legal heir: OrderThe court held that the claimants were “legal representatives” of the victim under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act.