The common fund doctrine requires a lienholder benefiting from a recovery to share the attorney fees that produced it.

An ERISA lien is a self-funded employee health plan's claim for reimbursement of medical benefits paid, enforced under federal law with limited defenses...

A hospital lien is a statutory claim by a hospital against a personal injury recovery for the value of care provided.

A letter of protection is an attorney's written promise to pay a medical provider from settlement proceeds, allowing an uninsured claimant to obtain...

Lien resolution is the process of identifying, negotiating, and satisfying medical, insurance, and government claims against settlement proceeds.

The made whole doctrine bars a subrogated insurer from recovering until the insured has been fully compensated.

A Medicaid lien is a state agency claim against a personal injury recovery for medical assistance benefits paid.

A medical provider lien is a claim by a treating provider against a personal injury recovery for unpaid charges.

A Medicare conditional payment is medical care Medicare paid for that another party was responsible for, which must be reimbursed from a settlement.

The Medicare Secondary Payer statute makes Medicare the secondary payer to liability, no-fault, and workers' compensation coverage, with rights to recover...

A Medicare set-aside is a portion of a settlement allocated to pay future injury-related medical care that Medicare would otherwise cover.

Subrogation is an insurer's right to recover what it paid by stepping into the shoes of its insured and pursuing the party responsible for the loss.