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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Subtitle 40. Health Care Malpractice Insurance
304.40.280 Advance payment by defendant.
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care, or other essential goods or services, shall constitute or be evidence of an
admission of liability on the part of such health care provider, and no such payment
or offer shall be admissible in evidence in any such action, except after a verdict for
the purpose of offsetting any damages awarded. The court shall reduce the amount
of any judgment for damages awarded in such malpractice action by the amount of
any advance payment made by any defendant health care provider or malpractice
insurer on behalf of such defendant health care provider to the claimant. (2) In any malpractice action where there is more than one (1) defendant health care provider, and in the event an advance payment made by or on behalf of one (1) or
more of said defendants exceeds the respective liability of said defendant making it,
the court shall order any adjustment necessary to equate with its percentage liability
the amount which said defendant is obligated to pay, exclusive of costs. (3) In no case shall an advance payment in excess of any award of damages be repayable by the claimant. Effective: July 1, 1976
History: Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 163, sec. 4, effective July 1, 1976.
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