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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-807" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Subsequent Injuries">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In any case involving payment from the Subsequent Injury Fund, the Commission or any party in interest shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>give written notice to the State Treasurer or the attorney for the Subsequent Injury Fund that the Subsequent Injury Fund is or may be involved in the case; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>implead the Fund, in writing, as a party.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Subsequent Injury Fund may be impleaded at any stage of the proceedings:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>before the Commission; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>on appeal.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the Subsequent Injury Fund is impleaded on appeal before a circuit court or the Appellate Court of Maryland, the court:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>as to an impleader filed at least 60 days before the scheduled trial in the circuit court or at least 60 days before the hearing in the Appellate Court of Maryland, shall:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>suspend further proceedings; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>remand the case to the Commission for further proceedings to give the Subsequent Injury Fund an opportunity to defend against the claim; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>as to an impleader filed less than 60 days before the trial in the circuit court or less than 60 days before the hearing in the Appellate Court of Maryland, may for good cause shown:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>suspend further proceedings; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>remand the case to the Commission for further proceedings to give the Subsequent Injury Fund an opportunity to defend against the claim.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
