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4.The amount of
P5,000.00 as attorney's
fees;
5.The amount of
P3,000.00 as litigation
expenses; and
Rollo)
2.The amount of
P20,000.00 by way of moral
damages;
3.The amount of
P20,000.00 by way of
exemplary damages;
6.Costs." (p. 9,
b)The award of
actual damages of
P3,460.00 instead of only
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SO ORDERED.
SUN INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD., petitioner,
vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS and
NERISSA LIM, respondents.
Exceptions
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(a)The Insured.
(b)Any person driving on
the Insured's order or with his
permission. Provided that the
person driving is permitted in
accordance with the licensing or
other laws or regulations to drive
the Motor Vehicle and is not
disqualified from driving such
motor vehicle by order of a Court of
law or by reason of any enactment
or regulation in that behalf." (Exh.
'A.')
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SO ORDERED.
PERLA COMPANIA DE SEGUROS, INC.,
petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS,
HERMINIO LIM and EVELYN LIM,
respondents.
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Zenco Sales,
Inc.P55,698.00
F. Legaspi Gen.
Merchandise86,432.50
Cebu Tesing
Textiles250,000.00 (on
credit)
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P392,130.50
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B . . . WHEN IT CONSIDERED AS
EVIDENCE MATTERS
WHICH WERE NOT
PRESENTED AS EVIDENCE
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"GENERAL EXCEPTIONS
The company shall not be liable
under this policy in respect of
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SO ORDERED.2
The trial court ruled that Magalong and
Atiga were not employees or representatives of
Producers. It said:
The Court is satisfied that plaintiff
may not be said to have selected
and engaged Magalong and Atiga,
their services as armored car driver
and as security guard having been
merely offered by PRC Management
and by Unicorn Security and which
latter firms assigned them to
plaintiff. The wages and salaries of
both Magalong and Atiga are
presumably paid by their respective
firms, which alone wields the power
to dismiss them. Magalong and
Atiga are assigned to plaintiff in
fulfillment of agreements to provide
driving services and property
protection as such in a context
which does not impress the Court
as translating into plaintiff's power
to control the conduct of any
assigned driver or security guard,
beyond perhaps entitling plaintiff to
request a replacement for such
driver or guard. The finding is
accordingly compelled that neither
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application/enforcement of said
Code is concerned must necessarily
be inapplicable to an insurance
contract which defendant-appellant
itself had formulated. Had it
intended to apply the Labor Code in
defining what the word "employee"
refers to, it must/should have so
stated expressly in the insurance
policy.
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"Conditions
Applicable to All Sections.
"Atty. Yabut:
qWith respect to the other injured
passengers of your bus
wherein you made
payments you did not
secure the consent of
defendant (herein
petitioner) Perla Compania
de Seguros when you
made those payments?
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CONTRARY TO LAW.
The facts, 4 as found by the respondent Court of
Appeals are quoted hereunder:
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for compensation
which is the gist of the offense in Section 189 of the
Insurance Law in its 2nd paragraph, but what appellant
apparently overlooks is that she is prosecuted not
under the 2nd but under the 1st paragraph of Sec. 189
wherein it is provided that,
No person shall act as agent, sub-agent, or broker, in
the solicitation or procurement of applications for
insurance, or receive for services in obtaining new
insurance any commission or other compensation from
any insurance company doing business in the Philippine
Island, or agent thereof, without first procuring a
certificate of authority to act from the insurance
commissioner, which must be renewed annually on the
first day of January, or within six months thereafter.
therefore, there was no technical defect in the wording
of the charge, so that Errors 2 and 4 must be
overruled. 12
From the above-mentioned ruling, the respondent
appellate court seems to imply that the definition of an
insurance agent under the second paragraph of Section
189 is not applicable to the insurance agent mentioned
in the first paragraph. Parenthetically, the respondent
court concludes that under the second paragraph of
Section 189, a person is an insurance agent if he
solicits and obtains an insurance for compensation, but,
in its first paragraph, there is no necessity that a
person solicits an insurance for compensation in order
to be called an insurance agent.
We find this to be a reversible error. As correctly
pointed out by the Solicitor General, the definition of an
insurance agent as found in the second paragraph of
Section 189 is intended to define the word "agent"
mentioned in the first and second paragraphs of the
aforesaid section. More significantly, in its second
paragraph, it is explicitly provided that the definition of
an insurance agent is within the intent of Section 189.
Hence
Any person who for compensation ... shall be
an insurance agent within the intent of this section, ...
Patently, the definition of an insurance agent under the
second paragraph holds true with respect to the agent
mentioned in the other two paragraphs of the said
section. The second paragraph of Section 189 is a
definition and interpretative clause intended to qualify
the term "agent" mentioned in both the first and third
paragraphs of the aforesaid section.
Applying the definition of an insurance agent in the
second paragraph to the agent mentioned in the first
and second paragraphs would give harmony to the
aforesaid three paragraphs of Section 189. Legislative
intent must be ascertained from a consideration of the
statute as a whole. The particular words, clauses and
phrases should not be studied as detached and isolated
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October 8, 2001
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A:
I told them as will be shown by the map the
intention really of Mr. Edison Tantuco is to cover the
new oil mill that is why when I presented the existing
policy of the old policy, the policy issuing clerk just
merely (sic) copied the wording from the old policy and
what she typed is that the description of the
boundaries from the old policy was copied but
she inserted covering the new oil mill and to me
at that time the important thing is that it
covered the new oil mill because it is just within
one compound and there are only two oil
mill[s] and so just enough, I had the policy prepared. In
fact, two policies were prepared having the same date
one for the old one and the other for the new oil mill
and exactly the same policy period, sir." 14 (emphasis
supplied)
It is thus clear that the source of the discrepancy
happened during the preparation of the written
contract.
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PORTABLE EXTINGUISHERS
INTERNAL HYDRANTS
EXTERNAL HYDRANTS
FIRE PUMP
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SEC. 299 . . .
The Facts
The Case
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"I.
"Whether or not respondent is a
purely cooperative company or
association under Section 121 of
the National Internal Revenue Code
and a fraternal or beneficiary
society, order or cooperative
company on the lodge system or
local cooperation plan and
organized and conducted solely by
the members thereof for the
exclusive benefit of each member
and not for profit under Section 199
of the National Internal Revenue
Code. aATHIE
"II.
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First Issue:
Whether Respondent Is a Cooperative
The Tax Code defines a cooperative as an association
"conducted by the members thereof with the money
collected from among themselves and solely for their
own protection and not for profit." 8 Without a doubt,
respondent is a cooperative engaged in a mutual life
insurance business. aHcDEC
First, it is managed by its members. Both the CA and
the CTA found that the management and affairs of
respondent were conducted by its memberpolicyholders. 9
A stock insurance company doing business in the
Philippines may "alter its organization and transform
itself into a mutual insurance company." 10
Respondent has been mutualized or converted from a
stock life insurance company to a nonstock mutual life
insurance corporation 11 pursuant to Section 266 of
the Insurance Code of 1978. 12 On the basis of its
bylaws, its ownership has been vested in its memberpolicyholders who are each entitled to one vote; 13 and
who, in turn, elect from among themselves the
members of its board of trustees. 14 Being the
governing body of a nonstock corporation, the board
exercises corporate powers, lays down all corporate
business policies, and assumes responsibility for the
efficiency of management. 15
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company has provided for that particular memberpolicyholder. Accordingly, in apportioning divisible
surpluses, any mutual company uses a contribution
method that aims to distribute those surpluses among
its member-policyholders, in the same proportion as
they have contributed to the surpluses by their
payments. 33
Sharing in the common fund, any member-policyholder
may choose to withdraw dividends in cash or to apply
them in order to reduce a subsequent premium,
purchase additional insurance, or accelerate the
payment period. Although the premium made at the
beginning of a year is more than necessary to provide
for the cost of carrying the insurance, the memberpolicyholder will nevertheless receive the benefit of the
overcharge by way of dividends, at the end of the year
when the cost is actually ascertained. "The declaration
of a dividend upon a policy reduces pro tanto the cost
of insurance to the holder of the policy. That is its
purpose and effect." 34
A stipulated insurance premium "cannot be increased,
but may be lessened annually by so much as the
experience of the preceding year has determined it to
have been greater than the cost of carrying the
insurance . . . ." 35 The difference between that
premium and the cost of carrying the risk of loss
constitutes the so-called "dividend" which, however, "is
not in any real sense a dividend." 36 It is a technical
term that is well understood in the insurance business
to be widely different from that to which it is ordinarily
attached.
The so-called "dividend" that is received by memberpolicyholders is not a portion of profits set aside for
distribution to the stockholders in proportion to their
subscription to the capital stock of a corporation. 37
One, a mutual company has no capital stock to which
subscription is necessary; there are no stockholders to
speak of, but only members. And, two, the amount they
receive does not partake of the nature of a profit or
income. The quasi-appearance of profit will not change
its character. It remains an overpayment, a benefit to
which the member-policyholder is equitably entitled. 38
Verily, a mutual life insurance corporation is a
cooperative that promotes the welfare of its own
members. It does not operate for profit, but for the
mutual benefit of its member-policyholders. They
receive their insurance at cost, while reasonably and
properly guarding and maintaining the stability and
solvency of the company. 39 "The economic benefits
filter to the cooperative members. Either equally or
proportionally, they are distributed among members in
correlation with the resources of the association
utilized." 40
It does not follow that because respondent is registered
as a nonstock corporation and thus exists for a purpose
other than profit, the company can no longer make any
profits. 41 Earning profits is merely its secondary, not
primary, purpose. In fact, it may not lawfully engage in
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SO ORDERED.
On July 24, 1990, respondent instituted with the
Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 44, an action for
damages against petitioner and its president, Dr. Benito
Reverente, which was docketed as Civil Case No. 9053795. She asked for reimbursement of her expenses
plus moral damages and attorney's fees. After trial, the
lower court ruled against petitioners, viz:
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or in whom he has a
pecuniary interest;
(3)of any person under a legal
obligation to him for the
payment of money,
respecting property or
service, of which death or
illness might delay or
prevent the performance;
and
(4)of any person upon whose life
any estate or interest
vested in him depends.
In the case at bar, the insurable interest of
respondent's husband in obtaining the health care
agreement was his own health. The health care
agreement was in the nature of non-life insurance,
which is primarily a contract of indemnity. 9 Once the
member incurs hospital, medical or any other expense
arising from sickness, injury or other stipulated
contingent, the health care provider must pay for the
same to the extent agreed upon under the contract.
cDTHIE
Petitioner argues that respondent's husband concealed
a material fact in his application. It appears that in the
application for health coverage, petitioners required
respondent's husband to sign an express authorization
for any person, organization or entity that has any
record or knowledge of his health to furnish any and all
information relative to any hospitalization, consultation,
treatment or any other medical advice or examination.
10 Specifically, the Health Care Agreement signed by
respondent's husband states:
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COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL
REVENUE, petitioner, vs.
LINCOLN PHILIPPINE LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY, INC.
(now JARDINE-CMA LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY, INC.)
and THE COURT OF APPEALS,
respondents.
This is a petition for review on certiorari filed by the
Commission on Internal Revenue of the decision of the
Court of Appeals dated November 18, 1994 in C.A. G.R.
SP No. 31224 which reversed in part the decision of the
Court of Tax Appeals in C.T.A. Case No. 4583.
The facts of the case are undisputed.
Private respondent Lincoln Philippine Life Insurance Co.,
Inc., (now Jardine-CMA Life Insurance Company, Inc.) is
a domestic corporation registered with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and engaged in life
insurance business. In the years prior to 1984, private
respondent issued a special kind of life insurance policy
known as the "Junior Estate Builder Policy," the
distinguishing feature of which is a clause providing for
an automatic increase in the amount of life insurance
coverage upon attainment of a certain age by the
insured without the need of issuing a new policy. The
clause was to take effect in the year 1984.
Documentary stamp taxes due on the policy were paid
by petitioner only on the initial sum assured.
In 1984, private respondent also issued 50,000 shares
of stock dividends with a par value of P100.00 per
share or a total par value of P5,000,000.00. The actual
value of said shares, represented by its book value, was
P19,307,500.00. Documentary stamp taxes were paid
based only on the par value of P5,000,000.00 and not
on the book value.
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SO ORDERED. 2
SO ORDERED. 1
Petitioner appealed the CTA's decision to the Court of
Appeals. On November 18, 1994, the Court of Appeals
promulgated a decision affirming the CTA's decision
insofar as it nullified the deficiency assessment on the
insurance policy, but reversing the same with regard to
the deficiency assessment on the stock dividends. The
CTA ruled that the correct basis of the documentary
stamp tax due on the stock dividends is the actual
value or book value represented by the shares. The
dispositive portion of the Court of Appeals' decision
states:
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