Mitchell v. Haldar’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 14 state decisions

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1. “[The argument that the plaintiff's recovery was limited to the amount paid by his insurance] reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the proper application of the collateral source rule to a tortfeasor's responsibility to pay the full reasonable value of the necessary medical treatment caused by the negligent conduct.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crossgrove v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

2. “[r]egardless of any broad language in the opinion in Moorhead, that case involved medical services provided by the tortfeasor itself so that an application of the collateral source rule would have required, in effect, double payment”). 10 . In addition, as noted in ¶ 15, supra,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lopez v. Safeway Stores, Inc.