The NLRC likewise denied petitioners motion for reconsideration in a resolution
dated July 23, 2003.[11]
On petition for certiorari under Rule 65, the Court of Appeals found no
grave abuse of discretion on the part of the NLRC in deciding for private
respondent. It thus affirmed the NLRCs decision.[12]
The subsequent motion for reconsideration was denied in a resolution dated August
20, 2004.[13]
Hence, the instant petition anchored on the following assignment of errors:
THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN NOT FINDING THAT THE
NLRC COMMITTED GRAVE ABUSE OF DISCRETION IN REVERSING THE
DECISION OF THE LABOR ARBITER CONSIDERING THAT:
(A) THE LATTER STUCK TO THIS HONORABLE COURTS
PRECEDENT-SETTING RULING IN GERMAN MARINE AGENCIES
V. NLRC,[14] THAT IT IS THE COMPANY-DESIGNATED
PHYSICIAN WHO MUST ASSESS THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF
DISABILITY OF AN INJURED SEAFARER.
(B) THE LATTER APPLIED THE PROVISIONS OF THE POEAPRESCRIBED STANDARD EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT; and
(C) THE COMPLAINANTS INJURY WAS CONFINED ONLY TO HIS
LEFT FOOT, AND THUS HIS DISABILITY IS NOT TOTAL, BUT
ONLY PARTIAL.
There is no merit in the petition.
We have said often enough that for the extraordinary remedy of certiorari to
lie by reason of grave abuse of discretion, the abuse of discretion must be so patent
and gross as to amount to an evasion of a positive duty or a virtual refusal to