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GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, petitioner, vs. ANGELITA L. GABRIEL, respondents.

GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, petitioner, vs. ANGELITA L. GABRIEL, respondents.

G.R. No. 130379 | 1999-06-21

D E C I S I O N

PARDO, J.:

The case is an appeal via certiorari from a decision of the Court of Appeals[1] and its resolution denying reconsideration of the decision[2] reversing the ruling of the Employees Compensation Commission and the Government Service Insurance System that denied the claim of respondent Angelita L. Gabriel, as surviving spouse of the late Prosecutor Rosendo Gabriel, Jr., for death benefits arising from his death due to work connected ailment.

The pertinent facts are as follows:

Prosecutor Rosendo Gabriel, Jr. was at the time of his death on January 11, 1995, Prosecutor II, Office of the City Prosecutor, Quezon...