Short answer. Yes. When less serious physical injuries are inflicted with the manifest intent to insult or offend the injured person, or under circumstances adding ignominy to the offense, Article 265 (as amended by Republic Act No. 10951) adds a fine of up to fifty thousand pesos on top of the arresto mayor penalty.
What the law says
Whenever less serious physical injuries shall have been inflicted with the manifest intent to insult or offend the injured person, or under circumstances adding ignominy to the offense, in addition to the penalty of arresto mayor , a fine not exceeding Fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000) shall be imposed.
Revised Penal Code, Article 265 — Less Serious Physical Injuries. Read the full provision →
What makes the injury "less serious"
Article 265 first defines the base offense: any person who shall inflict upon another physical injuries not described in the preceding articles, but which shall incapacitate the offended party for labor for ten (10) days or more, or shall require medical assistance for the same period, shall be guilty of less serious physical injuries and shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor. That baseline penalty applies regardless of motive — it is the ten-day-or-more standard, not intent, that separates less serious injuries from slight ones.
The added fine for insult or ignominy
On top of arresto mayor, the article adds a fine whenever the injuries were inflicted with the manifest intent to insult or offend the injured person, or under circumstances adding ignominy to the offense. This covers injuries deliberately carried out in a humiliating manner — not just causing physical harm, but doing so in a way meant to degrade the victim. The fine set for this aggravated form is up to fifty thousand pesos, in addition to, not instead of, the term of imprisonment.
This figure reflects a 2017 revision
The fifty-thousand-peso ceiling is the text of Article 265 as amended by Republic Act No. 10951 (2017), which rewrote the fines and property-value thresholds across the Revised Penal Code. Older reproductions of the Code may still carry the pre-2017 figure this article once set, so if you are checking an older text, print-out, or textbook against this rule, confirm it reflects the amounts as revised by that law rather than the original 1930 amount.
A heavier penalty applies against certain victims
The same article separately punishes less serious injuries inflicted on specific people more heavily: any less serious physical injuries inflicted upon the offender's parents, ascendants, guardians, curators, teachers, or persons of rank, or persons in authority, shall be punished by prisión correccional in its minimum and medium periods, provided that against a person in authority the act does not instead amount to the separate crime of assault upon that person. That heavier bracket is distinct from, and does not depend on, the insult-or-ignominy fine described above.