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agency for the examination and asked for a medical check-up, but was refused.
We find no reversible legal error in the CA ruling affirming the denial of Villanueva’s
claim for disability benefits. We find it undisputed that he was repatriated for finished
contract, not for medical reasons. More importantly, while the 2000 POEA-Standard
Employment Contract (Section 32-A[11]) considers a heart disease as occupational,
Villanueva failed to satisfy by substantial evidence the condition laid down in the
Contract that if the heart disease was known to have been present during employment,
there must be proof that an acute exacerbation was clearly precipitated by the unusual
strain brought about by the nature of his work.
Clearly, as the CA emphasized, Villanueva’s repatriation for completion of his contract
belies his submission that his claimed heart disease had been aggravated by his work
on board the vessel M/S Forestal Gaia.
WHEREFORE, we dismiss the petition outright for its failure to show that the Court of
Appeals committed any reversible error in its assailed ruling.
SO ORDERED.
Carpio, (Chairperson), Del Castillo, Perez, and Perlas-Bernabe, JJ., concur.
[1] Rollo, pp. 3-25.
[2] Id. at 29-37; penned by Associate Justice Samuel H. Gaerlan, and concurred in by
Associate Justices Rebecca L. de Guia-Salvador and Apolinario D. Bruselas, Jr.
[3] Id. at 39.
[4] Id. at 84-93.
[5] Id. at 94-101.
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