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Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) vs. Court of Appeals (CA)

GOVERNMENT SERVICE, INSURANCE SYSTEM, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, and ZENAIDA LIWANAG, respondents.

G.R. No. 128523 | 1998-09-25

D E C I S I O N
 
DAVIDE, JR. J.:
 
Petitioner Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) seeks to reverse the 26 February 1997 decision[1] of respondent Court of Appeals in CA G.R. SP No. 41976 which granted private respondent Zenaida Liwanag compensation benefits under P.D. No. 626, as amended, and in the process, set aside the 27 December 1995 decision[2] of the Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) in ECC Case No. 7633.

As found by respondent Court of Appeals, the facts of this case were as follows:
 
[Private respondent] Zenaida Liwanag is the surviving spouse of the late Jaime Liwanag who died on September...