Practice question
What is the central idea of the personal comfort doctrine in work-injury analysis?
- Every activity a worker enjoys is necessarily employment.
- Reasonable acts attending to personal comfort may remain incidental to employment rather than breaking its course.
- Any personal need permanently ends employment.
- All recreational injuries guarantee maximum compensation.
- Only physical production tasks can be incidental to work.
Legal references
- Arriesgado v Multinational Maritime, G.R. 275424, April 29 2026, main opinion: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/70389
- Arguilles v Wilhelmsen Smith Bell Manning, G.R. 254586, July 10 2023, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2023/jul2023/gr_254586_2023.html
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