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Cal. Civil Code § 3045.5 (2026)

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The person, partnership, association, corporation or other institution or body maintaining the hospital may, at any time within one year after the date of the payment to the injured person, or to his heirs, attorney, or legal representative, enforce its lien by filing an action at law against the person, firm, or corporation making the payment and to whom such notice was given as herein provided.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2003–2015 · leading case: Newton v. Clemons, 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5808 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003).

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Newton v. Clemons, 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5808 (Cal. Ct. App. 2003). “) Civil Code section 3045.5 then provides that a hospital may enforce its lien, “at any time within one year after the date of the payment to the injured person, .”

Slusher v. Dameron Hosp. Assn. CA3 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015). “(Civ. Code, § 3045.5.) However, the amount a hospital is entitled to receive under the HLA “necessarily turns on any agreement it has with the injured person or the injured person’s insurer.”

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