Practice question
A claimant proves that a defendant employs the alleged actor but supplies no proof of an actionable employee injury-causing fault or the required task connection. No applicable evidentiary presumption supplies those missing facts. The claimant invokes employer negligence as if employment alone establishes everything. Which answer is sound?
- Every employer must disprove every allegation regardless of foundational facts
- The employer presumption does not eliminate the claimant's need to establish its applicable factual and legal foundation
- Employment proves causation conclusively
- Every personal act is an assigned task
- The direct actor can never be required to answer
Legal references
- Civil Code Article 2180: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- Safeguard Security Agency v. Tangco, GR 165732, December 14, 2006, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/40427
- Maitim v. Aguila, GR 218344, March 21, 2022, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2022/mar2022/gr_218344_2022.html
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