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Remus A. Diopenes Vs. Government Service Insurance System

REMUS A. DIOPENES, petitioner, vs. GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (GSIS) (Development Bank of the Philippines) and the EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION (ECC), respondents. Salvador T. Sabio for petitioner.

G.R. No. 96844 | 1992-01-23

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

Two years after his retirement, Remus A. Diopenes filed an application for the conversion of his compensation benefits from permanent partial disability to permanent total disability. The application was rejected by the Government Service Insurance System, which held that it had no more jurisdiction over the matter because the applicant was no longer in the service. 1 On appeal, this decision was affirmed by the Employees' Compensation Commission on the ground that the alleged permanent total disability was not service-connected. 2 Dissatisfied, the petitioner has come to this Court for relief.

Diopenes joined...