Definiendo el concepto del Incremento Material del Riesgo en la relación de causalidad: ¿podría aplicarse en el Derecho peruano?

• Autor: Canepa Casillas, Ricardo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad de Lima
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/4893
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/Advocatus/article/view/4893
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: law of negligence; torts; liability; damages; material increase in risk; material contribution to harm; evidentiary gaps; causation; adequate cause; factual causation; common law; Peruvian law; but for; Wilsher; Bonnington; McGhee; Sienkiewicz; Barker; Fairchild; Cook; Summers; Litzinger; Clements; responsabilidad civil; incremento material del riesgo; contribución material al riesgo; vacío probatorio; causalidad; causa adecuada; causa necesaria; conducta negligente; Derecho anglosajón

Through this essay, the author attacks the issues behind the evidentiary gaps that prevent the finding of a causal link between the damage and the wrongdoer, particularly when these evidentiary gaps preclude the claimant from proving who, within a group of persons who have increased the risk of damage, actually caused it. As a solution, the author proposes that the “multiple tortfeasor exception”, which is an application of the “material increase in risk” developed in the common law, can be implemented in Peru thanks to the flexibility provided by the adequate cause (the Peruvian approach to causation). For these purposes, the lessons learned through the common law shall serve as guiding light.