Subsequent Injuries Fund v. Industrial Accident Commission

This controversy concerns the apportionment of liability between an employer and the Subsequent Injuries Fund. (Lab. Code, §§ 4750-4755.) The employe, Mrs. Harris, before her industrial injury had a permanent partial disability consisting of impairment of the motion of the spine, the result of tuberculosis of the spine which had become quiescent. The industrial injury from a fall, said to be “negligible” in itself, caused aggravation of the previously quiescent disease and, following various courses of treatment including surgery, a complete paralysis of both legs and of the body up to the…