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Purification C. Unite vs. Worken's Compensation Commission,et al

[1979V176] PURIFICACION C. UNITE, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION & REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (thru the Bureau of Plant Industry), respondents.

G.R. No. L-42493/G.R. No. L-43532/G.R. No. L-42633/G.R. No. L-43405/G.R. No. L-42554/G.R. No. L-4340 | 1979-05-28

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The fifteen workmen's compensation cases at bar are jointly adjudicated in this consolidated decision on the basis of the Court's well-settled and controlling jurisprudence and doctrines.

1. In L-42493, respondent commission reversed the referee's award in favor of claimant-petitioner PURIFICATION C. UNITE, granting her inter alia the amount of P6,154.96 as reimbursement of expenses for medicines purchased by her (duly supported by receipts from various drug stores) for the treatment of her service-connected illnesses of Essential Hypertension and Kock's disease (PTB). On account of said work-connected...