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Manuel Belarmino vs. Employees' Compensation Commission, et al.

MANUEL BELARMINO, petitioner, vs. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COMMISSION and GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, respondents.

G.R. No. 90204 | 1990-05-11

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

This seven-year-old case involves a claim for benefits for the death of a lady school teacher which the public respondents disallowed on the ground that the cause of death was not work-connected.

Before her death on February 19, 1982, petitioner's wife, Oania Belarmino, was a classroom teacher of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports assigned at the Buracan Elementary School in Dimasalang, Masbate (p. 13, Rollo). She had been a classroom teacher since October 18, 1971, or for eleven (11) years. Her husband, the petitioner, is also a public school teacher.

On January 14, 1982, at nine...