Granting of Successive Temporary Total Disability (TTD) Benefits and Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) Benefits for Work-Related Injuries that Resulted to Functional Loss and/or Physical Loss of Any Part of the Body

September 2, 2010ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 10-09-114GRANTING OF SUCCESSIVE TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY (TTD) BENEFITS AND PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY (PPD) BENEFITS FOR WORK-RELATED INJURIES THAT RESULTED TO FUNCTIONAL LOSS AND/OR PHYSICAL LOSS OF ANY PART OF THE BODYExcerpts from the Minutes of the 7th Regular Commission Meeting, Employees' Compensation Commission, Series of 2010, Convened at the Board Room, 5th Floor, ECC Building, 355 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City on Thursday, 2nd day of September 2010 at 12:00 Noon.WHEREAS, Article 166 of P.D. 626, as amended, states that the policy of the Employees' Compensation Program (ECP) is to grant disability benefits to qualified workers in the event of work-related injuries; WHEREAS, under existing jurisprudence, an injured worker may recover compensation for both temporary total and permanent partial disability. The object of the law in allowing compensation during temporary total disability is to compensate the laborer for what he might have earned during the period of treatment of his work-related injury. On the other hand, the object of the law in granting compensation for a permanent...