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Privacy & Terms G.R. No. 138941, 8 Oct. 2001

Disclaimer INSURANCE LAW: Liberality is the rule of construction in insurance contracts.

FACTS:
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Tantuco Enterprises, Inc. is a coconut oil milling and refining company. It owned two mills (the
Popular Posts first oil mill and a new one), both located at its factory compound at Iyam, Lucena City. The two
List of Case Digests oil mills are separately covered by fire insurance policies issued by American Home Assurance
Co.
Arranged in alphabetical
order (according to last
On Sept. 30, 1991, a fire broke out and gutted and consumed the new oil mill. American Home
names), for your convenience.
rejected the claim for the insurance proceeds on the ground that no policy was issued by it
Note that Chinese names are
covering the burned oil mill. It stated that the new oil mill was under Building No. 15 while the
mostly written with the last
insurance coverage extended only to the oil mill under Building No. 5.
nam...

ARTICLE VII: Executive


ISSUE:
Department
Whether or not the new oil mill is covered by the fire insurance policy
Sec. 1: President The
executive power shall be
vested in the President of the
Philippines. Sec. 2: HELD:
Qualifications Natural-born
citizen... In construing the words used descriptive of a building insured, the greatest liberality is shown
BILL OF RIGHTS: Rights of an by the courts in giving effect to the insurance. In view of the custom of insurance agents to
Accused examine buildings before writing policies upon them, and since a mistake as to the identity and
RIGHTS OF AN ACCUSED character of the building is extremely unlikely, the courts are inclined to consider the policy of
Before Criminal Prosecution: insurance covers any building which the parties manifestly intended to insure, however
(before arraignment) Right to inaccurate the description may be.
due process ( Sec. 14(1) )
Custodial rights ( Sec. 12 ) ... Notwithstanding, therefore, the misdescription in the policy, it is beyond dispute, to our mind,
that what the parties manifestly intended to insure was the new oil mill.
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If the parties really intended to protect the first oil mill, then there is no need to specify it as
Case Digests new. Indeed, it would be absurd to assume that the respondent would protect its first oil mill
Notes for different amounts and leave uncovered its second one.
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