The appellants — the widow and two daughters of the deceased Polagani Satyam — challenged the compensation of Rs.5,29,200/- awarded by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Guntur, as inadequate following his death in a road accident on 01.01.2005, when an auto-rickshaw driven rashly struck him. The High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, applying the guidelines from Sarla Verma v. Delhi Transport Corporation and National Insurance Company Ltd. v. Pranay Sethi, recalculated the compensation by taking the deceased's gross salary of Rs.7,184/- per month, adding 30% towards future prospects (as the deceased was 46 years old and in permanent employment), deducting 1/3rd for personal expenses, and applying a multiplier of 13. The court arrived at a loss of dependency figure of Rs.9,71,880/- and additionally awarded compensation under conventional heads including funeral expenses (Rs.15,000/-), loss of estate (Rs.15,000/-), and loss of consortium (Rs.40,000/-). The court also noted that the MACT had erroneously applied a multiplier of 8 instead of 13 and had incorrectly imposed 50% contributory negligence on the deceased, both of which were corrected on appeal.