Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 35-11-370 (2026)
Lien Declared.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
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.
(Acts 1955, No. 488, p. 1098, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 21
cases (5 in the last 5 years), 1995–2026 · leading case: Univ. of So. Ala. v. Progressive Ins., 904 So. 2d 1242 (Ala. 2004).
Univ. of So. Ala. v. Progressive Ins., 904 So. 2d 1242 (Ala. 2004). “Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-370, provides: "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…”
Bd. of Trs. v. Am. Resources Ins. Co., 5 So. 3d 521 (Ala. 2008). “Under § 35-11-370, Ala. Code 1975, 1 the hospitals had an automatic lien for all reasonable charges the hospitals incurred for Patricia’s treatment, and each hospital attempted to perfect its lien pursuant to § 35-ll-371(a), Ala.”
Roberts v. Univ. of Alabama Hosp., 27 So. 3d 512 (Ala. Civ. App. 2008). “After their release from treatment, the hospital filed liens pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-370 et seq., which, in pertinent part, provides for the recording of liens “for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment and maintenance of an injured person” that attach…”
Alfa Mut. Ins. Co. v. Univ. of S. Ala., 241 So. 3d 705 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). “50 by filing a notice thereof on May 30, 2013, pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-370 et seq., with the Mobile Probate Court; that Alfa had issued a draft in the amount of $2,000 to Wright's parents for the payment of funeral expenses on July 23, 2013; that, on August 22, 2013,…”
Alfa Mut. Ins. Co. v. Univ. of S. Ala., 243 So. 3d 264 (Ala. Civ. App. 2015). “50 by filing a notice thereof on May 30, 2013, pursuant to Ala. Code 1975, § 35-11-370 et seq., with the Mobile Probate Court; that Alfa had issued a draft in the amount of $2,000 to Wright's parents for the payment of funeral expenses on July 23, 2013; that, on August 22, 2013,…”
Progressive Specialty Ins. Co. v. Univ. of Alabama Hosp., 953 So. 2d 413 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006). “Code *414 1975, § 35-11-370, UAB filed a notice of hospital lien on January 29, 2004, for the amount of $27,898.”
Doroshow, Pasquale, Krawitz & Bhaya v. Nanticoke Mem'l Hosp., Inc., 36 A.3d 336 (Del. 2012). “Alabama, Ala.Code § 35-11-370 (1991); Alaska, Alaska Stat.”
City of Prattville v. Corley, 892 So. 2d 845 (Ala. 2003). “Code 1975; § 25-5-57, Ala.Code 1975; § 25-5-80, Ala.Code 1975; § 25-9-60, Ala.”
Alfa Mut. Ins. Co. v. Univ. of S. Ala. (Ex parte Alfa Mut. Ins. Co.), 241 So. 3d 712 (Ala. 2017). “Facts and Procedural History USA filed a complaint against Alfa alleging impairment of its hospital lien imposed pursuant to Ala. Code 1975, §§ 35-11-370 through -372, with respect to expenses incurred by USA in its treatment of Abaney T.”
Johnson v. Health Care Auth. of Huntsville, 660 So. 2d 1017 (Ala. Civ. App. 1995). “Thus, the apparent intent of Ala.Code 1975, § 35-11-370, is to provide a hospital with a statutory lien and the status of a secured creditor in determining the priority of claims where the injured party enters the hospital within one week after receiving an injury.”
Alfa Mut. Ins. Co. v. Univ. of S. Ala. (Ex parte Alfa Mut. Ins. Co.), 243 So. 3d 271 (Ala. 2017). “Facts and Procedural History USA filed a complaint against Alfa alleging impairment of its hospital lien imposed pursuant to Ala. Code 1975, §§ 35-11-370 through -372, with respect to expenses incurred by USA in its treatment of Abaney T.”
Univ. of South Alabama v. Garrick, 761 So. 2d 237 (Ala. Civ. App. 1998). “On May 28, 1996, USA Medical Center, pursuant to § 35-11-370, Ala.Code 1975, filed a hospital lien for the charges incurred during Garrick’s second hospitalization.”
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