Practice question
After a supervised fitness session, a client suffers a serious medical event. The evidence proves the injury but fails to establish the alleged negligent omission or a proximate causal link between the trainer's conduct and that event. The claimant argues that sequence alone requires liability. Which analysis accords with Kim?
- An event after a session necessarily proves its cause
- The claimant must prove negligence and proximate causation; temporal sequence and injury alone do not complete the quasi-delict
- The client must always be blamed for every medical event
- Fitness services are exempt from all civil duties
- The court must invent missing contractual duties to fill the proof gap
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 2176–2179: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Kim v. Slimmers World International, GR 206306/206321, April 3, 2024, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2024/apr2024/gr_206306_2024.html
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