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Miguel Acosta vs. Employees Compensation Commisssion

MIGUEL ACOSTA and CESAR ACOSTA, petitioners, vs. EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION COMMISSION, GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM and MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55464 | 1981-11-12

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

Petition for review on certiorari of the decision dated September 18, 1980 of the Employees Compensation Commission.

Miguel Acosta filed a claim for employees' compensation benefit with the GSIS relative to the death of his wife, Fe Acosta due to carcinoma of the ovary. The System denied the claim on June 4, 1979 on the ground "that the fatal ailment is not in the least casually related to the employment of the deceased and hence, the case falls outside the compensable purview of the Employees Compensation law."

The deceased was a classroom teacher under the Ministry of Education and Culture. She started...