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Soledad Munos Mesa Vs. Social Security System, et al.

SOLEDAD MUNOZ MESA, Petitioner, versus SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM and PHILROCK INCORPORATED, Respondent.

G.R. No. 160467 | 2009-04-07

D E C I S I O N


CARPIO MORALES, J.:

On appeal is the Court of Appeals Decision[1] dated January 16, 2003 sustaining the Decision[2] dated August 24, 2001 of the Employees Compensation Commission (ECC) in ECC Case No. MS-12322-501, as well as its Resolution[3] dated October 3, 2003 denying petitioner's motion for reconsideration.

Teodoro Mesa (Mesa), the deceased husband of petitioner Soledad Muñoz Mesa, was an employee of respondent Philrock Incorporated (Philrock), from April 1966 to November 1998.[4]

In the course of his employment, Mesa was diagnosed to be afflicted with diabetes mellitus, pulmonary tuberculosis, and ischemic heart...