Now, this we didn’t know about.
“The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered the Quezon City regional trial court (RTC) to proceed with the trial on the civil case filed against television network ABS-CBN Corporation on its liability for the death of a mother and her six-year-old daughter in 2002,” reports Rey G. Panaligan in Manila Bulletin.
In the complaint filed by Manolito Roxas, he asked the RTC to order ABS-CBN to pay him PHP17.34 million in damages for the death of his wife, Estela, and daughter, Pauline.
The report noted: “Roxas alleged that on March 11, 2002, Antonio Magat was driving a Nissan Power van registered in the name of the network. While traversing along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, the vehicle slammed into his family, including himself and his two-year-old daughter Olline.”
The four members of the Roxas family were brought to the New Era General Hospital but due to the injuries sustained, Estela and Pauline were declared dead on arrival.
Roxas claimed that “ABS-CBN repeatedly ignored his demands for indemnification for the deaths of his wife and daughter, and for the injuries he and his surviving daughter sustained.”
According to ABS-CBN, Roxas has no basis to seek damages from the television network because Magat’s employer was the Human Resources Assistance Network, Inc. (HRANI) with which the network has a contract for services since 1993.
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