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Magsaysay Maritime Corporation and/or Westfal-Larsen and Co., A/S Vs. National Labor Relations Commission, First Division, and Wilson G. Capoy

MAGSAYSAY MARITIME CORPORATION and/or WESTFAL-LARSEN AND CO., A/S, Petitioners, vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, First Division, and WILSON G. CAPOY, Respondents.

G.R. No. 191903 | 2013-06-19

SECOND DIVISION 

DECISION

BRION, J.:

We resolve the present petition for review on certiorari 1 assailing the decision2 dated December 18, 2009 and the resolution3 dated April 19, 2010 of the Court of Appeals ( CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 104859. 

The Factual Antecedents 

The petitioner manning agency, Magsaysay Maritime Corporation, in behalf of its foreign principal, co-petitioner Westfal-Larsen and Co., A/S, hired respondent Wilson G. Capoy as Fitter on board the vessel M/S Star Geiranger for nine months, with a monthly salary of US$666.00.4

 Sometime in July 2005, while he was at work, Capoy allegedly fell down a ladder from a...