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Product Liability Update - July 2010.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds Face Amount of Medical Bills Admissible as Evidence of Reasonable Value of Services Rendered to Personal Injury Plaintiff, But Range of Payments Generally Accepted by Plaintiff's Providers in Satisfaction of Such Bills Also Admissible
In the just-decided case of Law v. Griffith, --- N.E. 2d. ----, 2010 WL 2803893 (Mass. July 20, 2010), plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident when she was struck by defendant's vehicle. Thereafter, she brought a negligence action in Massachusetts Superior Court. Before trial, the judge allowed defendant's motion to exclude plaintiff's medical bills from evidence because the amounts actually paid by plaintiff's medical insurer, and accepted by her providers, were significantly lower than the amounts the providers had billed. As a result, the parties'...See the full content of this document
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