Any person, firm, hospital authority, or corporation operating a hospital in this state shall have a lien for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment, and maintenance of an injured person who entered such hospital within one week after receiving such injuries, upon any and all actions, claims, counterclaims, and demands accruing to the person to whom such care, treatment, or maintenance was furnished, or accruing to the legal representatives of such person, and upon all judgments, settlements, and settlement agreements entered into by virtue thereof on account of injuries giving rise to such actions, claims, counterclaims, demands, judgments, settlements, or settlement agreements and which necessitated such hospital care, subject, however, to any attorney’s lien.
Ala. Code § 35-11-370
Lien Declared.
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Doroshow, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya v. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Inc. (2012)
Most recently applied in Doroshow, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya v. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Inc. (January 2012)
(Acts 1955, No. 488, p. 1098, §1.)
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.