Decision ID: 000811

In May 1994 the 1971 Fund Executive Committee endorsed the Director’s position that since experts had expressed the opinion that there was no permanent damage to a farm contaminated by oil, but only a possible depreciation of a pyschological nature, the farmer was not entitled to compensation for on-going diminution of value.

Date: 30.04.1994
Category: Property damage
Subjects: Admissibility criteria, Link of causation between the loss and the contamination