Practice question
The properly selected Section 57 third doctor considers only the company doctor’s papers and refuses to examine the seafarer doctor’s medical documents as a categorical policy. What evidentiary direction has been overlooked?
- The third grading must consider the medical documents issued by both doctors
- Only company documents may ever be considered
- Only the seafarer doctor’s preferred conclusion controls
- No medical record is relevant
- The third doctor may replace examination with a coin toss
Legal references
- RA 12021, Sections 29 and 57: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2024/ra_12021_2024.html
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