Jul 31, 2009common carriersfortuitous eventtortscivil codepassenger liabilitysupreme court
Common Carriers and Fortuitous Events: Reassessing Liability in Passenger Injury Cases
The Supreme Court held that a bus company is not liable for a passenger's death when the collision was caused solely by a third-party truck's brake failure.
When a bus passenger dies in a collision, Philippine law immediately presumes that
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