SIBTF Claims Attorney In Los Angeles

Not surprisingly, men and women who work in blue collar jobs incur more work-related injuries and file a much higher percentage of workers’ compensation claims than those who work in office settings.

It’s common for blue collar workers who have reached maximum recovery from a work-related injury and returned to work to suffer a subsequent industrial injury. If a worker already had a disability or impairment at the time of the pre-existing injury, recovering additional workers’ compensation benefits for the subsequent injury becomes complex but not impossible.

California lawmakers created the Subsequent Injuries Benefit Trust Fund (SIBTF) for this reason. In order to collect SIBTF benefits, these criteria must be met:

• The employee must have a pre-existing permanent partial disability (PPD).
• The employee must have a subsequent industrial disability of 35 percent or more (unless the injury is to an equal or opposite appendage, such as a foot or arm).
• The two disabilities combined must be greater than what the employee’s disability would have been if the employee suffered only the subsequent and not the pre-existing disability.
• The two disabilities combined must be equal to 70 percent or more permanent disability.

Clearly, recovering SIBTF benefits is a complex matter that is difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish without assistance from a knowledgeable workers’ compensation lawyer. The Law Offices of Anthony Choe and experienced Los Angeles Subsequent Injuries Benefit Trust Fund Lawyer Anthony Choe have the experience and knowledge necessary to help injured workers navigate this complicated process and litigate to recover SIBTF benefits if necessary.