In any action for personal injury or property damage, a judgment may be entered for the claimant only for damages which exceed amounts received by the claimant from collateral sources as compensation for the personal injury or property damage, whether from private, group or governmental sources, and whether contributory or noncontributory. For the purposes of this section, collateral sources shall not include benefits paid under federal programs which by law must seek subrogation, death benefits paid under life insurance contracts, benefits paid by a service corporation organized under chapter 34, title 41, Idaho Code, and benefits paid which are recoverable under subrogation rights created under Idaho law or by contract. Evidence of payment by collateral sources is admissible to the court after the finder of fact has rendered an award. Such award shall be reduced by the court to the extent the award includes compensation for damages which have been compensated independently from collateral sources.
Idaho Code § 6-1606
Prohibiting double recoveries from collateral sources
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Perreira v. Rediger (2001)
Most recently applied in Mulford v. Union Pacific Railroad (February 2014)
I.C., § 6-1606, as added by 1990, ch. 131, § 1, p. 304.
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