MANILA - The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the claim of a seafarer's widow that lung cancer is a compensable work-related illness in the case of her husband. In a 19-page resolution uploaded online on March 21, the SC's First Division affirmed the 2016 decision of the Court of Appeals ordering MOT Barko Manila Inc. and Mitsubishi Ore Transport Co. Inc. to pay Nerissa V. Delamide the amount of US$65,528 (around PHP3.4 million) in total and permanent disability benefits and sickness allowance and PHP577,938 as reimbursement for medical and transportation expenses and attorney's fees. The CA ruling had set aside the May 31, 2015 decision of the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) and instead reinstated the March 25, 2015 decision of the labor arbiter granting his claim for these benefits. Nerissa substituted for his husband Rolando Delamide in the suit following his death due to cancer in 2016, while the case was pending. The SC upheld the CA's findings that as a sh