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Susan G. Carungcong vs. National Labor Relations Commission, et al.

SUSAN G. CARUNGCONG, petitioner vs. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS COMMISSION, SUN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. OF CANADA, LANCE KEMP and MERTON DEVEZA, respondents.

G.R. No. 118086 | 1997-12-15

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

Susan Carungcong began her career in the insurance industry in 1974 as an agent of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (hereinafter Sun Life). She signed an "Agent's Agreement" with Sun Life on September 10, 1974 (retroactive to June, 1974), 1 in virtue of which she was designated the latter's "agent to solicit applications for . . (its) insurance and annuity policies."

The contract set out in detail the terms and conditions particularly those concerning the commissions payable to her under which her relationship with the company would be governed.

This contract was superseded some five years later when...