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Carolina Clemente vs Gov't Service Insurance System

CAROLINA CLEMENTE, petitioner, vs. GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM Department of Health (Dagupan City) and EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-47521 | 1987-07-31

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This is petition to review the decision of the Employees' Compensation Commission in ECC Case No. 0509 which affirmed the decision of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and denied the claim for death benefits filed by Carolina Clemente, widow of the late Pedro Clemente.

The undisputed facts of the case are summarized in the memorandum for the respondent Government Service Insurance System, as follows:

"Petitioner's husband, the late Pedro Clemente, was for ten (10) years a janitor in the Department of Health (Dagupan City), assigned at the Ilocos Norte Skin Clinic, Laoag City. He was...