A self-funded employer health plan can often bypass Georgia's made-whole protection because it is governed by a federal statute, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and federal law preempts conflicting...
A letter of protection is a written promise, usually signed by an injured person's attorney, that medical bills for accident-related treatment will be paid out of any future settlement or...
Yes. The Recreational Property Act in Georgia is not limited to private owners, and a government entity that opens land to the public for recreation without charge can claim its...
The place of filing is a specific requirement, not a formality, and a lien recorded in the wrong office may not be effective. Under O.C.G.A. § 44-14-471, a hospital must...
Whether a public employee can be held personally liable depends heavily on which level of government employs the person and what kind of act caused the harm. Georgia treats individual...
It depends on how the bill was handled and what the provider agreed to. "Balance billing" here means a medical provider pursuing the injured person for the gap between its...
Medicare arrives at its final repayment figure in two stages: first it totals the accident-related conditional payments it made, then it reduces that total to share the cost of obtaining...
When an absent defendant can still be served through alternative methods, the limitation clock generally keeps running. Georgia's tolling for a defendant who has left the state is closely linked...
A defendant can forfeit the statute-of-limitations defense. The missed-deadline defense is an affirmative defense, which means it belongs to the defendant to assert, and a defendant who fails to raise...
When a health plan pays the medical bills from an accident that someone else caused, it usually claims a right to be paid back out of any money the injured...