law: The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
  155. Effect 
  
  of death on certain causes of action.
  
  
  Notwithstanding anything contained  in section 306 of the Indian Succession Act, 
  
  1925  (39 of  1925.) the  death of a person in whose favour a certificate of 
  
  insurance had  been issued,  if it  occurs after  the happening  of an event 
  
  which  has given  rise to  a claim  under the provisions of this Chapter, shall  
  
  not be  a bar  to the  survival of any cause of action arising out  of the  said 
  
  event  against his  estate  or  against  the insurer.