"Presumptive Compensability" for AFP Members and Policemen

July 5, 1988ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 3908-88"PRESUMPTIVE COMPENSABILITY" FOR AFP MEMBERS AND POLICEMENWHEREAS, because of certain serious peace and order problems of the country, more particularly the insurgency problems, it has become generally perceptible that on account of the nature of their work, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have become "marked men" insofar as insurgents and other lawless elements are concerned and are, therefore, killed by such insurgents at every opportunity; On motion of Hon. Hector B. Inductivo, member-designate of the Employees' Compensation Commission (ECC) Board of Commissioners, that the member-designate representing the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), namely, Hon. Amante R. Rimando, duly seconded;This Board, resolves, as it hereby resolves, to approve the adoption of a policy that the moment an AFP member suffers a contingency, the presumption is that it is because of the nature of his work; provided that the evidentiary details of his injury, or death, are clearly established through duly issued medical certificates on his injury or injuries, or death, by the attending physician or duly...