Nash Hosps., Inc. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

INMAN, Judge.

*727 This appeal arises from a $757 hospital bill. It concerns an insurance company's payment of a total settlement directly to a pro se personal injury claimant by check made payable jointly to the claimant and two of her medical providers, each of which held valid liens on the settlement funds. We affirm the trial court's ruling, in granting summary judgment for a lienholder, that the insurance company violated the North Carolina medical lien statutes by failing to retain funds subject to medical liens and committed an unfair or deceptive trade practice by failing to pay directly…