Setting the Reckoning Date for the Three-Year Prescriptive Period in the Evaluation of Claims for Temporary Total Disability (TTD) Due to Sickness

March 25, 2014ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 14-03-09SETTING THE RECKONING DATE FOR THE THREE-YEAR PRESCRIPTIVE PERIOD IN THE EVALUATION OF CLAIMS FOR TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY (TTD) DUE TO SICKNESSExcerpts from the Minutes of the Second (2nd) Joint Regular Commission Meeting, Employees' Compensation Commission, Series of 2014, 3A Conference Room, OSHC Bldg. Agham cor. North Ave., Quezon City, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 12:00 NN. WHEREAS, Article 201 of P.D. No. 626, as amended, provides: "ART. 201. Prescriptive Period. — No claim for compensation shall be given due course unless said claim is filed with the System within three years from the time the cause of action accrued."WHEREAS, Commission Circular No. 03-709, dated July 22, 2009, provides for the reckoning date of the three-year prescriptive period due to sickness in this manner, to wit: a. "In the case of sickness, from the time the covered employee lost the earning capacity and not when the illness first became manifest."WHEREAS, EC Board Resolution No. 11-04-10, dated April 28, 2011, provides that the three-year prescriptive period for filing of claim...