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Government Service Insurance System Vs. Marian T. Vicencio

GOVERNMENT SERVICE INSURANCE SYSTEM, Petitioner, versus MARIAN T. VICENCIO, Respondent.

G.R. No. 176832 | 2009-05-21

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, C.J.:

This is a Petition for Review on Certiorari[1] under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court seeking to reverse and set aside the Decision[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-GR SP No. 74790 which set aside the Decision[3] of the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) in ECC Case No. GM-14245-702. The ECC denied respondent Marian T. Vicencio's (Mrs. Vicencio's) claim for the death benefits of her husband, the late Judge Honorato S. Vicencio (Judge Vicencio).

The facts are established.

Judge Vicencio entered government service in 1964 as a Legal Researcher of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP). In 1966,...