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Talip vs. Workmen's Compensation Commission

CIRILO TALIP, FOR AND IN BEHALF OF THE MINOR CHILDREN, NAMELY: VICTORIA, HILDA & EFREN, SURNAMED TALIP, petitioners, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and PHILIPPINE PACKING CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-42574 | 1976-05-31

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court reverses respondent commission's decision dismissing the claim and instead reinstates the Referee's Award on the strength of controlling and established jurisprudence upholding the presumption of compensability of the employee's illness or death which supervened in the course of employment and ruling out non-jurisdictional defenses of the employer in cases of non-controversion or improper controversion.

Respondent commission in its decision of December 12, 1975 peremptorily reversed the Referee's July 25, 1974 Award of P5,200.00 as death compensation benefits to petitioners-claimants,...