Any person, firm, hospital authority, or corporation operating a hospital in this state shall have a lien for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment, and maintenance of an injured person who entered such hospital within one week after receiving such injuries, upon any and all actions, claims, counterclaims, and demands accruing to the person to whom such care, treatment, or maintenance was furnished, or accruing to the legal representatives of such person, and upon all judgments, settlements, and settlement agreements entered into by virtue thereof on account of injuries giving rise to such actions, claims, counterclaims, demands, judgments, settlements, or settlement agreements and which necessitated such hospital care, subject, however, to any attorney's lien.
Structure Code of Alabama
Article 5 - Liens of Particular Persons or Classes of Persons.
Section 35-11-370 - Lien Declared.
Section 35-11-371 - Perfection of Lien.
Section 35-11-372 - Release or Satisfaction.
Section 35-11-373 - Jurisdiction to Determine Matters Connected With Lien; Appeals.
Section 35-11-374 - Division Not Applicable to Moneys Due Under Workmen's Compensation Act.
Section 35-11-375 - Hospital Not Given Independent Right to Determine Liability for Injuries.