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Bandila Maritime Services, Inc. and/or Tokomaru Kaiun Co., Ltd. vs. Dubduban

BANDILA MARITIME SERVICES, INC. and/or TOKOMARU KAIUN CO., LTD., Petitioners, versus ROLANDO DUBDUBAN, Respondent.

G.R. No. 171984 | 2009-09-29

R E S O L U T I O N


CORONA, J.:

Respondent Rolando Dubduban was engaged by petitioner Tokomaru Kaiun Co., Ltd. and its Philippine manning agent, Bandila Maritime Services, Inc., as chief cook of M/V White Arrow for 10 months.[1] He boarded the vessel on November 3, 1998.

After the expiration of his contract, respondent returned to the Philippines on October 8, 1999. A month later, he had a medical examination at the Metropolitan Hospital in Manila where he was diagnosed with fibroid scarrings in his right upper ear lobe and consequently was advised to undergo parotidectomy.[2] Respondent agreed. During the pre-operational procedure, he was...