Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 831

An insurance contract. Its nature. It is a contract under which the insurer undertakes to pay the insured or beneficiary a sum of money, a periodic income, or any other financial compensation upon the occurrence of the accident or realization of the risk specified in the contract, in return for monetary consideration paid to it. It is permissible to stipulate therein that the beneficiary shall be another person - 155 - Commercial and that person shall have a direct action against the insurance company. The judgment declaring that action inadmissible because it was brought by a person lacking standing. An error in the application of the law requiring its cassation. An example of a group insurance contract concluded by a company for the benefit of its workers.