Whose Money Is It? The Law of Subrogation in Tennessee

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Are you familiar enough with subrogation law in Tennessee to protect the interests of your clients? Regardless of which side you represent in settlement negotiations, you don't want to miss the all-new Tennessee Attorneys Memo audio conference to learn what claims could be asserted against a personal injury settlement: Whose Money Is It? The Law of Subrogation in Tennessee.

The Tennessee Supreme Court recently reiterated that if a trial court finds that an injured party has been made whole, reimbursement should be awarded to the insurance company only to the extent that the injured party’s total recovery exceeds the injured party’s total damages. For purposes of the "made whole" doctrine, the court said, it is sufficient for an injured party to present evidence of non-economic damages that is "as certain as the nature of the case permits" and that "enable[s] the trier of fact to make a fair and reasonable assessment of the damages."

In two cases this year, the Court of Appeals held:
* A trial court should not have reduced a hospital’s lien by one-third representing the plaintiff’s attorney’s lien.
* An insurer impaired a hospital’s lien when the insurer made a payment to a medical provider without a release or satisfaction of the hospital’s lien.

When you participate in this interactive live event, your speaker will discuss these holdings and will answer such questions as:

• Is my client made whole by a settlement, and does it matter?
• ERISA claims - Should my client and I just sit back and collect?
• Hospital liens - How do I handle this convoluted statute?
• All work and no pay - How do I handle attorney fees and the subrogation claim?

April 22