Understand the legal differences between liens, subrogation, and reimbursement rights in personal injury settlements. Learn how proper classification affects negotiations, reductions, compliance obligations, and protecting your client’s recovery.
Hospital liens can threaten client recoveries if not handled correctly. Learn how to identify, verify, and resolve hospital lien claims strategically to maximize outcomes.
This guide breaks down the 7 major personal injury lien types, explains their risks, and offers practical strategies for trial lawyers to protect client recoveries.
For personal injury firms, deciding which liens to outsource versus resolve in-house can make or break client recoveries. Complex liens like Medicare, ERISA, and Medicaid often demand expert help, while smaller or local liens may be managed internally.
Navigating hospital and provider liens in personal injury cases can be a labyrinthine process.
Navigating the complex world of healthcare liens can be overwhelming, especially for cases involving military personnel, Veterans, Medicaid recipients and the uninsured who need hospital care.
The “reasonable value” of healthcare is an issue throughout our entire system and there’s no definition of what is “reasonable value”.
August 12, 2021 Teresa Kenyon, Esq. When handling a third-party liability case and you know your client had health insurance that paid the medical expenses, should you check to see if there is a lien interest on the settlement funds? Or maybe you have settled a case and you just received a notice letter from […]
April 22, 2021 Michael D. Walrath, Esq. Direct provider “liens” against settlement proceeds have teeth, whether hospital or physician liens, statutory or contractual. The various positions of state bar associations on these issues, and the limited law delineating them, have historically been ever shifting and evolving but two things are clear. Liens must be released […]