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Naess Shipping Phils., Inc., vs. NLRC, et al.

NAESS SHIPPING PHILIPPINES, INC., petitioner, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION and ZENAIDA R. DUBLIN, respondents.

G.R. No. 73441 | 1987-09-04

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, J p:

The decisive issue in this special civil action of certiorari is whether or not the POEA and the NLRC acted with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction in adjudging that under a contract of employment of a crewman of an ocean-going vessel providing as "compensation for (the crewman's) loss of life" for the payment of "CASH BENEFITS" to his "immediate next of kin," said crew-man's death by suicide is compensable.

On the night of September 3, 1983, while the vessel MV DYVI PACIFIC was plying the seas enroute from Santos, Brazil to Port Said, Egypt, Pablo Dublin, the vessel's...