Policy on Prescription, Permanent Total Disability, Increased Risk, Progression (Deterioration) of Illness or Injury, Presumptive Death, Personal Comfort Doctrine and Definition of Excepting Circumstances

August 5, 1993ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 93-08-0068POLICY ON PRESCRIPTION, PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY, INCREASED RISK, PROGRESSION (DETERIORATION) OF ILLNESS OR INJURY, PRESUMPTIVE DEATH, PERSONAL COMFORT DOCTRINE AND DEFINITION OF EXCEPTING CIRCUMSTANCESRESOLVED, THAT the following policy instructions 01-93 of the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) be approved effective immediately: To insure proper implementation of Title II, Book IV, on Employees' Compensation and State Insurance Fund of the Labor Code of the Philippines, as amended, and its approved Implementing Rules and Regulations concerning the processing and adjudication of employees' compensation (EC) cases, the following rules and regulations are hereby issued for the guidance of all concerned:1. PRESCRIPTION (See Sec. 6, Rule VII of the Amended Rules on Employees' Compensation)2. PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY (PTD):2.1. As a rule, a sickness or injury requiring prolonged treatment shall be deemed temporary total for a period of not more than one hundred twenty days (120) days; thereafter, if disability still persists, the grant of temporary total disability (TTD) benefits shall be continued up to a maximum of (240) days. Thereafter, if the claimant is...