HOSPITAL CHARGES
IMPORTANT LEGAL POINT.
CHARGE ON DAMAGES AWARDED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 10. The full bench of the Supreme Court has defined the meaning and effect of section 15 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Act 1932, in judgments delivered to-day. The point raised by an originating summons was of considerable interest to insurance companies, as doubt formerly existed as to the powers of hospital boards to charge funds payable as damages to persons injured, as a result of accidents covered by insurance. Tire Act provides, that the amount of a patient’s liability for hospital treatment shall be charged on all moneys payable in respect to damages. Plaintiff was Stanley Herbert Powell, of Lower Hutt, a taxi proprietor, and defendants, Russell James, L. Hayston, of Taita, an apprentice, who suffered injuries necessitating the amputation, of a leg, and the Wellington Hospital Board which claimed a charge on the damages which Hayston secured. The court holds that the charge given under the Act does not continue for the purpose of protecting a hospital board for cost of relief granted by it after judgment has been obtained by an injured person.
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Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 3
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193HOSPITAL CHARGES Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 3
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