Pursuant to Section 13, Article VIII of the Constitution, and the Division Chairpersons Attestation, it is hereby certified that the conclusions in the above Decision had been reached in consultation before the case was assigned to the writer of the opinion of the Courts Division.   REYNATO S. PUNO Chief Justice   [1]  P enned by Associ at e Just i ce Eugeni o S . Labi t ori a (now ret i red), wi t h Associ at e Just i ces El oy R . B ell o, Jr. and P erl i t a J. Tri a Ti rona, concurri ng,  rol l o , p. 31. [2]  Ibi d. [3]  Roll o , pp. 39- 43. [4]  Id.  at 35- 36. [5]  Id.  at 87. [6]  C A rol l o ,  p. 65. [7]  Roll o , p. 66. [8]  Id.at  68. [9]  357 Phi l . 511 (1998). [10]  Id.  at 528- 530. [11]  Roll o , pp. 42- 43. [12]  Id .  at 43. [13]  Government Servi ce Insurance Syst em v. Court of Appeal s , supra not e 9 at 535. [14]  Val enci a v. Workmens C ompensat i on Commi ssi on , 164 P hil . 261, 267 (1976),  ci ti ng S ect i on 44, as am ended, of Act No. 3428;  A.D. Sant os, Inc. v. De   Sapon , 123 P hil . 630, 634 (1966); N ai ra v. Workmens C ompensat i on C ommi ssi on , 116 P hil . 675, 677678 (1962). [15]  S ee Ji menez v. C ourt of Appeal s , G.R . No. 144449, March 23, 2006, 485 SC R A 149, 161;  Government Servi ce Insurance Syst em v.   C uanang , G.R . No. 158846, June 3, 2004, 430 S CR A 639, 648;  Sal al i ma   v. Empl oyees C ompensat i on C ommi ssi on , G.R . No. 146360, May 20, 2004, 428 SC R A 715, 723;  Orat e v. Court of Appeal s , 447 P hil . 654, 661 (2003).