The Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund (SIBTF) was formerly known as the Subsequent Injuries Fund (SIF). These are complex cases involving catastrophic ...

For the 5% opposite and corresponding member criteria, the subsequent injury must only affect the opposite and corresponding member; it need not injure that ...

As quoted in Escobedo v. Marshalls (2005) 70 CCC 604, 19 [en banc], "...the chief requirement for SIF benefits is that the condition must have been 'labor di...

Under POMS Section: DI 52120.030, the SSA sets out their rules for Offsets In SIF cases. Under this section, the basic WC payment is offsettable, however, th...

In Bookout v. WCAB (1976) 62 Cal. App. 3d 214, 40CCC704, the Court of Appeal concluded that the proper method for combining the injured worker's pre-existing...