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Apolinario Kirit, Sr., Et Al. Vs. Government Service Insurance System, Et Al.

APOLINARIO KIRIT, SR., ALICE K. MATURAN, ROSELYN K. BIGLETE, APOLINARIO A. KIRIT, JR., WILLIAM A. KIRIT and LORNA A. KIRIT, petitioners, vs. GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (Department of Education and Culture) and EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION, respondents.

G.R. No. 48580 | 1990-07-06

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

Petitioners seek a review of the decision of respondent Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC), dated March 1, 1978, which affirmed the denial by respondent Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) of petitioners' claim for death benefits under Presidential Decree No. 626, as amended.

The findings of respondent commission are as follows:

The late Eugenia A. Kirit was a classroom teacher of the Department of Education and Culture assigned at the Inalad Elementary School, Siaton, Negros Oriental. Her clinical record reveals that on March 25, 1976, she was confined at the Siliman University Medical...