Practice question
A repairer’s mistake creates a hazard, but an unrelated safety team completely removes it. A separate actor later creates a different hazard that alone causes injury, with no continuing contribution from the mistake. What follows from those findings?
- The new independent cause can break the earlier chain.
- The earlier mistake remains proximate indefinitely.
- Removing the hazard is legally irrelevant.
- Every later injury remains concurrent automatically.
- The repairer becomes liable merely because its work preceded the injury.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles 1174, 1759, 2176-2180: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Abrogar v. Cosmos Bottling Company, G.R. No. 164749, March 15, 2017, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html
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