Book IV — Health, Safety & Social Welfare
Article 173Extent of liability.
ELI5— what this means for you
ECC compensation is the exclusive remedy against your employer for work-related injury or death — you can't also sue them in court for the same injury. However, you can still collect SSS/GSIS benefits separately.
Key point
Official text — PD 442
Extent of liability.
Unless otherwise provided, the liability of the State Insurance Fund under this Title shall be exclusive and in place of all other liabilities of the employer to the employee, his dependents or anyone otherwise entitled to receive damages on behalf of the employee or his dependents. The payment of compensation under this Title shall not bar the recovery of benefits as provided for in Section 699 of the Revised Administrative Code, Republic Act Numbered Eleven hundred sixty-one, as amended, Republic Act Numbered Forty-eight hundred sixty-four as amended, and other laws whose benefits are administered by the System or by other agencies of the government. (As amended by Presidential Decree No. 1921).
Source: lawphil.net (PD 442 as amended)
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