Arkansas Code Title 18, Subtitle 4, Chapter 46 - Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act

• § 18-46-101 - Title.
  This chapter may be cited as the Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act.
• § 18-46-102 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (1) "Ambulance service provider" means a provider that renders services as defined in § 14-266-103(1) and (2); (2) "Claim"...
• § 18-46-103 - Attorney's Liens Not Affected.
  The liens given in this chapter shall in no way repeal or affect the statutory liens now provided in favor of attorneys.
• § 18-46-104 - Extent of Lien.
  On compliance with the requirements of this chapter, a practitioner, a nurse, a hospital, and an ambulance service provider shall each have a lien:...
• § 18-46-105 - Notice Required -- Contents -- Service -- Amendments and Supplements.
  In order to establish a lien under this chapter, a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider shall comply with the following conditions: (1)...
• § 18-46-106 - Liens Void After Certain Day Unless Action Commenced.
  (a) If at the expiration of one hundred eighty (180) days immediately following the day on which the most recent notice, amendatory notice, or...
• § 18-46-107 - Enforcement of Perfected Liens -- Parties.
  (a) (1) A practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that has perfected a lien under the provisions of this chapter to secure the...
• § 18-46-108 - Liens Assignable -- Enforcement.
  (a) All liens or claims of liens that accrue to any practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service providers under this chapter are assignable.(b) Proceedings...
• § 18-46-109 - Subrogation of Rights.
  Any person who, with the consent of a patient injured through the fault or neglect of another person, pays to a practitioner, nurse, hospital,...
• § 18-46-110 - Persons Under Legal Disability.
  If any person, because of minority, mental defect, death, or other legal disability, cannot exercise any right conferred on him or her by this...
• § 18-46-111 - Incorporation of Lien in Action by Patient.
  If a patient has instituted an action in any court in Arkansas to enforce his or her claim against the tortfeasor through whose fault...
• § 18-46-112 - Settlement of Patient's Claim Without Satisfaction of Lien Prohibited.
  (a) A tortfeasor and an insurer, and each of them, who have been notified, as authorized by this chapter, of a claim of lien...
• § 18-46-113 - Waiver or Release of Claim by Patient.
  (a) A patient who has been notified by a practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider of a claim of lien on any claim...
• § 18-46-114 - Release on Satisfaction or Waiver of Lien Required.
  (a) When a lien has been satisfied or waived, the practitioner, nurse, hospital, or ambulance service provider that established or waived it shall, on...
• § 18-46-115 - Records of Liens and Releases.
  (a) (1) The clerk of the circuit court in each county shall maintain, at the expense of the county, a file designated and labeled...
• § 18-46-116 - Receipt and Payment of Money by Court.
  (a) Any court having jurisdiction in an action by a patient injured through the fault or neglect of another person against the person whose...
• § 18-46-117 - Pro Rata Payment of Claims.
  If the amount for which a tortfeasor or an insurer is liable to the patient on account of his or her injury is not...

Last modified: November 15, 2016