§ 9-3-6 - Liability for payments to patient without honoring hospital lien.
SECTION 9-3-6
§ 9-3-6 Liability for payments to patientwithout honoring hospital lien. – Any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations, making anypayment to a hospital patient or to his or her attorneys or heirs or legalrepresentatives as compensation for the injury sustained, after the filing andmailing of the notice provided in § 9-3-5, without paying to the hospitalthe amount of its lien or so much thereof as can be satisfied out of the moneydue under any final judgment or compromise or settlement agreement after payingthe amount of any prior liens, shall, for a period of one year from the date ofpayment to the patient or his or her heirs, attorneys, or legalrepresentatives, be and remain liable to the hospital for the amount which thehospital was entitled to receive; and any such association, corporation, orother institution maintaining the hospital may, within such period, enforce itslien by a suit at law against the person or persons, firm or firms, corporationor corporations, making any such payment.