Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:11.1 – Intervention in personal injury and workers’ compensation suits
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:11.1
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
A. The Louisiana Department of Health, on behalf of any of the general charity hospitals under the administration of said department, or the United States, on behalf of any veterans administration hospital in the state, or any military treatment facility, may intervene at any time prior to judgment in any personal injury suit or in any suit involving worker’s compensation claims in which any of these hospitals has an interest, for the purpose of recovering the cost of drugs, X-rays, laboratory fees, surgical, medical, and other expenses of hospitalization and services rendered.
B. It is the intention of this Section that prescription shall not run against the intervention by the department or a veterans administration hospital, or any military treatment facility, in the state in any such suit in which any of them may have an interest until judgment has been rendered in the cause in the court of original jurisdiction or the prescriptive period provided by law for the cause of action has run, whichever is the later.
Acts 1958, No. 465, §§1, 2; Amended by Acts 1972, No. 20, §1; Acts 1978, No. 786, §6, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 1983, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 1, §6; Acts 1991, No. 381, §1.