4/9/2020 E-Library - Information At Your Fingertips: Printer Friendly [24] ART. 192. Permanent Total Disability. – (a) x x x xxx (c) The following disabilities shall be deemed total and permanent: (1) Temporary total disability lasting continuously for more than one hundred twenty days, except as otherwise provided for in the Rules; [25] Sec. 2. Period of Entitlement. – (a) The income benefit shall be paid beginning on the first day of such disability. If caused by an injury or sickness it shall not be paid longer than 120 days except when such injury or sickness still requires medical attendance beyond 120 days but not to exceed 240 days from onset of disability in which case benefit for temporary total disability shall be paid. However, the System may declare the total and permanent status at any time after 120 days of continuous temporary total disability as may be warranted by the degree of actual loss or impairment of physical or mental functions as determined by the System. [26] G.R. No. 193679, July 18, 2012. [27] Id. at 139. [28] Id. at 130. [29] Id. at 138. [30] C.F. Sharp Crew Management, Inc. v. Taok, supra note 26. [31] Santiago v. Pacbasin Shipmanagement, Inc., G.R. No. 194677, April 18, 2012. [32] Rollo, pp. 100, 103. [33] Incidentally, respondents do not refute and are in full accord with the CA’s disability grading in their Comment. Source: Supreme Court E-Library This page was dynamically generated by the E-Library Content Management System (E-LibCMS) elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocsfriendly/1/55346 7/7