8/27/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly SECTION 20. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS A. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS FOR INJURY OR ILLNESS The liabilities of the employer when the seafarer suffers work-related injury or illness during the term of his contract are as follows: xxxx 6. In case of permanent total or partial disability of the seafarer caused by either injury or illness the seafarer shall be compensated in accordance with the schedule of benefits enumerated in Section 32 of [t]his Contract. Computation of his benefits arising from an illness or disease shall be governed by the rates and the rules of compensation applicable at the time the illness or disease was contracted. The disability shall be based solely on the disability gradings provided under Section 32 of this Contract, and shall not be measured or determined by the number of days a seafarer is under treatment or the number of days in which sickness allowance was paid. (Additional emphasis and underscoring supplied) The CA was therefore correct in awarding to petitioner disability benefits under the POEA-SEC corresponding to a Grade 8 disability rating, which is Sixteen Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety-Five US Dollars (US$16,795.00). WHEREFORE, premises considered, the Petition is DENIED. The Decision dated December 16, 2015 and Resolution dated June 16, 2016 of the Court of Appeals in CAG.R. SP No. 136290 are AFFIRMED. SO ORDERED. Carpio, (Chairperson), Perlas-Bernabe, J. Reyes, Jr., and Lazaro-Javier, JJ., concur. * Macario is also stated as "Acario" while Dela Peña also appears as "Dela Pena" in some parts of the records. [1] Rollo, pp. 27-56, excluding Annexes. [2] Id. at 62-71. Penned by Associate Justice Manuel M. Barrios and concurred in by Associate Justices Rodil V. Zalameda and Victoria Isabel A. Paredes. https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/65520 11/14