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Crispulo Garol vs. Employees Compensation Commission

CRISPULO GAROL, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION and GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM (Ministry of Health), respondents.

G.R. No. L-55233 | 1988-11-29

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

In this Petition, Mr. Garol asks the Court to review a Decision of the Employee's Compensation Commission (ECC) affirming a Decision of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) which had denied his claim for death benefits under P.D. No. 626, as amended.

Petitioner's wife, Emeteria Garol was for about twenty-nine (29) years employed as a midwife by the Ministry (now Department) of Health. Her last assignment was in Bondoc Peninsula, San Narciso, Quezon Province, a remote area and apparently beset by difficulties of transportation.

Sometime in October 1978, Emeteria Garol started to exhibit a...