MAVIS FIAGBOR vs. MAERSK LINE TEMA

The Plaintiff was the wife of one Paul Fiagbor (deceased) who until his death was an employee of the Defendant Company. In the course of his duty as a driver of the Defendant Company he died in a motor accident on the Accra to Kumasi motor road on 12th April, 2006. On his death the Defendant paid out GH¢10,767.06 on 7th March, 2008 to dependants of the deceased, including the Plaintiff herein, workmen’s compensation. Nothing more was paid them until a year later, after Counsel for the Plaintiff had intervened by writing to the Defendant. Upon Counsel’s intervention, the Defendant paid additional amount of GH¢12,166.20 on 25th February, 2009 to the Plaintiff. However, using the deceased’s April, 2006 salary statement of GH¢398.32, Plaintiff computed the compensation due her per section 3(1)(a) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1987, (PNDCL 187) and obtained GH¢23,899.20. The Plaintiff observed from the above calculation that in spite of the payments made to her by the...