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Practice question: Personal Comfort Doctrine

Essay Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

Explain why an employer cannot automatically equate a seafarer's ordinary recreational mishap with notorious negligence or a willful exclusion under the applicable contract.

Legal references

  • Oscares v Magsaysay Maritime, G.R. 245858, December 2 2020, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2020/dec2020/gr_245858_2020.html
  • Arguilles v Wilhelmsen Smith Bell Manning, G.R. 254586, July 10 2023, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jul2023/gr_254586_2023.html
  • Arriesgado v Multinational Maritime, G.R. 275424, April 29 2026, main opinion: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/70389

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