O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 44-14-475 (2019)
Effect of part on settlement before entry into hospital, nursing home, or traumatic burn care medical facility
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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No settlement or release entered into or executed prior to the entry of the injured party into the hospital, nursing home, or facility which provides traumatic burn care medical practice or prior to the time the patient first sought treatment from the physician practice for the injuries shall be affected by or subject to the terms of this part.
History
Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 105, § 7;
Ga. L. 2002, p. 1141, § 5; Ga. L. 2004, p. 394, § 5; Ga. L. 2006, p. 334, § 5/SB 306.
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Construction, operation, and effect of statute giving hospital lien against recov-
ery from tortfeasor causing patient’s injuries, 16 A.L.R.5th 262.