New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- The SupremeCourt has come down hard on insurance companies forfiling needless appeals in workmen's compensation cases on technical grounds evenwhen they do not dispute their liability under insurance contracts -- a practice, it said, only delayed justice for injured workers. A bench of justices Manoj Misra and N Kotiswar Singh imposed a Rs.50,000 cost on The New India Assurance Company Ltd, calling its appeal before the Calcutta high court "unnecessary" and holding that it caused undue delay in the payment of compensation to a driver who had suffered injuries while on duty. P13...