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12-21-45
Section 12-21-45 Evidence that medical or hospital expenses to be paid or reimbursed admissible
as competent evidence. (a) In all civil actions where damages for any medical or hospital
expenses are claimed and are legally recoverable for personal injury or death,
evidence that the plaintiff's medical or hospital expenses have been or will be paid or reimbursed
shall be admissible as competent evidence. In such actions upon admission of evidence respecting
reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital expenses, the plaintiff shall be entitled
to introduce evidence of the cost of obtaining reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital
expenses. (b) In such civil actions, information respecting such reimbursement or payment
obtained or such reimbursement or payment which may be obtained by the plaintiff for medical
or hospital expenses shall be subject to discovery. (c) Upon proof by the plaintiff to the
court that the plaintiff is obligated to repay the medical or hospital expenses...
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6-5-545
Section 6-5-545 Evidence admissible that medical expenses will be reimbursed; information subject
to discovery. (a) In all actions where damages for any medical or hospital expenses are claimed
and are legally recoverable for personal injury or death, evidence that the
plaintiff's medical or hospital expenses have been or will be paid or reimbursed shall be
admissible as competent evidence. In such actions upon admission of evidence respecting reimbursement
or payment of medical or hospital expenses, the plaintiff shall be entitled to introduce evidence
of the cost of obtaining reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital expenses. (b) In
such civil actions, information respecting such reimbursement or payment obtained or such
reimbursement or payment which may be obtained by the plaintiff for medical or hospital expenses
shall be subject to discovery. (c) Upon proof by the plaintiff to the court that the plaintiff
is obligated to repay the medical or hospital expenses which have...
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6-5-522
Section 6-5-522 Evidence of medical expense reimbursement mitigates damages; cost of obtaining
reimbursement recoverable. In all product liability actions where damages for any medical
or hospital expenses are claimed and are legally recoverable for personal injury
or death, evidence that the plaintiff's medical or hospital expenses have been or will be
paid or reimbursed (1) by medical or hospital insurance, or (2) pursuant to the medical and
hospital payment provisions of law governing workmen's compensation, shall be admissible as
competent evidence in mitigation of such medical or hospital expense damages. In such actions
upon admission of evidence respecting reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital expenses,
the plaintiff shall be entitled to introduce evidence of the cost of obtaining reimbursement
or payment of medical or hospital expenses. Such portion of the costs of obtaining reimbursement
or payment of medical or hospital expenses as the trier of fact finds is...
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6-5-524
Section 6-5-524 Evidence of reimbursement inadmissible if recipient must repay. Upon proof
by the plaintiff to the court that the plaintiff is obligated to repay the medical or hospital
expenses which have been or will be paid or reimbursed, no evidence relating to such reimbursement
or payment not otherwise admissible shall be admissible as a result of this division. (Acts
1979, No. 79-476, p. 876, §5.)...
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6-5-523
Section 6-5-523 Reimbursement for medical expenses discoverable. In all product liability actions
information respecting reimbursement or payment obtained or which may be obtained by the plaintiff
for medical or hospital expenses shall be subject to discovery. (Acts 1979, No. 79-476, p.
876, §4.)...
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6-5-487
Section 6-5-487 Advance payments by defendant or insurer not admission of liability; advance
payments in excess of award not repayable. (a) In all actions for medical liability, any advance
payment made by the defendant or his insurer to or for the plaintiff, or any other person,
may not be construed as an admission of liability for injuries or damages suffered by the
plaintiff or anyone else. Evidence of such advance payment is not admissible until there is
a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff, in which event the court shall reduce the judgment
to the plaintiff to the extent of advance payment. The advance payment shall inure to the
exclusive credit of the defendant or his insurer making the payment. In the event the advance
payment exceeds the liability of the defendant or the insurer making it, the court shall order
any adjustment necessary to equalize the amount which each defendant is obligated to pay,
exclusive of cost. (b) In no case shall an advance payment in excess of...
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6-5-542
institution, physician, dentist, hospital, or other health care provider as those terms are
defined in Section 6-5-481. (2) STANDARD OF CARE. The standard of care is that level of such
reasonable care, skill, and diligence as other similarly situated health care providers in
the same general line of practice, ordinarily have and exercise in like cases. A breach of
the standard of care is the failure by a health care provider to comply with the standard
of care, which failure proximately causes personal injury or wrongful death.
This definition applies to all actions for injuries or damages or wrongful death whether in
contract or tort and whether based on intentional or unintentional conduct. (3) FUTURE DAMAGES.
Damages for future medical treatment, care, or custody, loss of future earnings, future loss
of earning capacity, future loss of bodily function, future loss of consortium, or future
pain and suffering. (4) PERIODIC PAYMENT. The payment of money or delivery of other property...
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34-27B-5
position. (b) All board members shall be residents of Alabama and the composition of the board
shall reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state.
(c) The Governor shall make the appointments for all positions for members of the board within
90 days of the date the position becomes available, including initial appointments, vacancies,
and replacements at the end of the term of service. (d) Members of the board shall have the
same immunities from personal liability as state employees for actions taken in the
performance of their official duties. (e) The term of office of those members first appointed
shall be as follows: Two respiratory therapists and the hospital member, as determined by
the Governor, shall serve for terms of two years, and one respiratory therapist and the physician
member shall serve for terms of four years. Thereafter, the term of all members shall be for
four years. No member shall be appointed for more than three...
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25-5-11
the employee was entitled. For purposes of this amendatory act, the employer shall be entitled
to subrogation for medical and vocational benefits expended by the employer on behalf of the
employee; however, if a judgment in an action brought pursuant to this section is uncollectible
in part, the employer's entitlement to subrogation for such medical and vocational benefits
shall be in proportion to the ratio the amount of the judgment collected bears to the total
amount of the judgment. (b) If personal injury or death to any employee results
from the willful conduct, as defined in subsection (c) herein, of any officer, director, agent,
or employee of the same employer or any workers' compensation insurance carrier of the employer
or any person, firm, association, trust, fund, or corporation responsible for servicing any
payment of workers' compensation claims for the employer, or any officer, director, agent,
or employee of the carrier, person, firm, association, trust, fund, or...
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31-9-40
the exchange of medical, fire, police, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications
personnel, and equipment and supplies. Article VIII - Compensation. Each party shall provide
for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces
of that state and representatives of deceased members of the forces in case members sustain
injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and
on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
Article IX - Reimbursement. Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this
compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving the aid for any loss or damage to
or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in
answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with such requests. Any
aiding party state may assume in whole or in part loss, damage, expense, or other...
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