2015 Arkansas Code
Title 18 - Property
Subtitle 4 - Mortgages And Liens
Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act
§ 18-46-114 - Release on satisfaction or waiver of lien required.
(a) When a lien has been satisfied or waived, the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that established or waived it shall, on written demand and at the expense of the patient, or the person by whom the patient was injured, or by the insurer obligated by reason of the injury, give a written release, duly acknowledged before a justice of the peace or notary public.
(b) (1) Any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that refuses or fails under the circumstances stated, for a period of five (5) days or more after a written demand is made for a release, to execute and deliver the release shall be liable to the demandant for any injury or damage that results from refusal or failure.
(2) In any event he or she shall forfeit to the demandant the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which may be recovered in any action for damages because of the failure, or in a civil action before a justice of the peace, as the circumstances of the case require.
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