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Expedita Librea Vs. Employees' Compensation Commission, Et Al.

EXPEDITA LIBREA, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION and GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (Ministry of Education and Culture), respondents.

G.R. No. 58879 | 1992-03-06

R E S O L U T I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

The petitioner is the widow of Eufronio Librea, who rose from the rank of public school classroom teacher to his last position of Division Physical Education Supervisor at the time of his death on July 28, 1980.

In 1978, Mr. Librea began to complain of a gradual loss of appetite, enlargement of the abdomen and severe anemia. On July 2, 1980 he was confined in a hospital in Lipa City where his ailment was diagnosed as cirrhosis of the liver in its terminal stage. He died of said ailment on July 28, 1980.

The attending physician certified that the illness may have been caused by the nature of the...