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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 17, 2010

Will Our Health Insurance Benefits Be Protected?

The Supreme Court's grant to review Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provisions, Inc. is a good sign, write practitioners Scott Sumner and Christopher Dolan.

By Scott Sumner and Christopher Dolan

Remember the collateral source rule from law school? Its ranking on the law student scale of understanding is somewhere between the rule against perpetuities and the rule of thumb.

Although vaguely familiar to many lawyers, the collateral source rule is critical to people injured by the wrongful conduct of manufacturers, Big Tobacco, employers and bad drivers, among others. What the collateral sou...

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