§ 35-11-370 — Lien Declared

Alabama § 35-11-370

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 35: Property
• Ch. 11: Liens
• Art. 5: Liens of Particular Persons or Classes of Persons
• Div. 15: Hospitals

Text

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.

Legislative History

(Acts 1955, No. 488, p. 1098, §1.)