Victim Compensation Claim Against Guarantee Fund Rejected Due to Statutory Insurance Requirement

An individual, having suffered harm due to an accident involving a vehicle that was not insured at the time, sought compensation from the Guarantee Fund for Road Victims, but the claim was rejected by the lower courts on the basis that the applicable statute required the vehicle to be either insured or stolen for the Fund to intervene. The Court of Cassation upheld the rejection, reasoning that the law explicitly limits the Fund's liability to accidents caused by uninsured vehicles or those whose owners or drivers could not be identified (stolen), and therefore, the absence of valid insurance alone, without the element of theft, did not trigger the Fund's obligation to compensate the victim.