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Sagliba, Nemia vs. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.

NEMIA SAGLIBA, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION, GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (Bureau of Agricultural Economics), respondents.

G.R. No. L-63860 | 1984-04-24

D E C I S I O N


MAKASIAR, J.:

This is a petition to review the decision of the Employees' Compensation Commission in ECC Case No. 1958, dated March 17, 1983, affirming the decision of the Government Service Insurance System denying the claim for compensation benefits under P.D. 626, as amended, filed by petitioner Nemia Sagliba for the death of her husband, Diosdado Sagliba, on the ground that the fatal ailment, hepatoma, is not work-connected (ECC Comment, p. 89, rec.)

The deceased, Diosdado Sagliba, started working with the government on July 17, 1969 as statistician at the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Tacloban City. On July...