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2008-07-23 |
YNARES-SATIAGO, J. |
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| With respect to moral damages, we have time and again held that as a general rule, a corporation cannot suffer nor be entitled to moral damages. A corporation, being an artificial person and having existence only in legal contemplation, has no feelings, no emotions, no senses; therefore, it cannot experience physical suffering and mental anguish. Mental suffering can be experienced only by one having a nervous system and it flows from real ills, sorrows, and griefs of life - all of which cannot be suffered by an artificial, juridical person.[98] The Labor Arbiter's award of moral damages was therefore improper. | |||||
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2004-05-28 |
PANGANIBAN, J. |
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| As a general rule, a corporation -- being an artificial person without feelings, emotions and senses, and having existence only in legal contemplation -- is not entitled to moral damages,[160] because it cannot experience physical suffering and mental anguish.[161] However, for breach of the fiduciary duty required of a bank, a corporate client may claim such damages when its good reputation is besmirched by such breach, and social humiliation results therefrom.[162] CASA was unable to prove that BPI had debased the good reputation of,[163] and consequently caused incalculable embarrassment to, the former. CASA's mere allegation or supposition thereof, without any sufficient evidence on record,[164] is not enough. | |||||