Practice question
A claimant requests proved medical expenses and a separately justified moral-damages award after one tort. The defendant says any two damage categories from one event are necessarily double recovery. Assume each category is legally available and does not duplicate the other’s compensatory subject. What is correct?
- Only one damage category can ever be awarded.
- Moral damages necessarily repay the same invoice twice.
- Medical expenses can never be actual damages.
- Distinct legally justified categories are not automatically duplicate recovery merely because one event caused them.
- Any claimant may demand arbitrary amounts in every category.
Legal references
- https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html — Civil Code, articles 2177 and2199.
- https://lawphil.net/courts/rules/rc_110-127_crim.html — Rules of Court, Rule 111 section 3.
- https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/jan2024/gr_255180_2024.html — Fernando, Jr. v People, GR 255180, January 31 2024, main resolution: no double recovery for the same act or omission.
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