Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 3951

Recourse against the State to guarantee personal injury. Its criterion. The damage must entail Sharia diyah and it must be impossible to identify the person responsible for compensation or obliged to guarantee it. - The State’s liability to compensate its civilian employees for occupational injuries. Its criterion: fault for which it is answerable or fulfillment of the conditions for recourse against it for Sharia diyah as guarantor of personal injury in respect of that injury. Compensation determined by the tripartite committee for occupational injuries. A grant from the State to the employee injured during and because of work. The reason: the Civil Service Law and Regulations contain no provision obliging the administrative authority to compensate the employee for occupational injury. Departing from this. An error in applying the law requiring cassation of the judgment. Example. - 732 - Obligation