Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4118

Concurrent liability for payment of a debt because the insurer and the third party responsible for the accident are bound by the same debt, although the source of each one’s obligation differs. This entails their joint responsibility for it. Its effect: the creditor may claim the whole debt from each of them separately or from them together, and the injured person’s receipt from one of them of compensation that does not make good the damage does not prevent renewed recourse against the other for compensation for the remaining damage not made good. This does not constitute combining two compensations. The reason for this. - 760 - Obligation Statutory interest as compensation: