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Domingo Vicente Vs. Employees' Compensation Commission

DOMINGO VICENTE, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION, respondent. Olandesca Law Offices for petitioner.

G.R. No. 85024 | 1991-01-23

D E C I S I O N


SARMIENTO, J.:

Central to this petition for certiorari which assails the decision 1 dated August 24, 1988 of the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) in ECC Case No. 3764, affirming the decision of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), is the question on whether the petitioner suffers from permanent total disability as he claims, or from permanent partial disability as held by the respondent Commission.

The undisputed facts of the case are as follows:

The petitioner, Domingo Vicente, was formerly employed as a nursing attendant at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. On August 5, 1981, at...