Zurich American Insurance Co. v. Haile

LEIBSON, Justice.

This case requires us to construe the proper application of KRS 411.188, a statute relating to treatment of collateral source payments, 1 enacted in 1988 as part of House Bill 551, an omnibus package of so-called “tort reform” legislation. KyActs 1988, Ch. 224, § 4. In its entirety this legislation is officially styled “AN ACT relating to civil actions.”

Joyce P. Whitehouse was an employee of Norwest Financial, Inc., when, in the course of her employment, she was injured in an automobile accident occurring June 30, 1988. She sued Desiree D. Haile, driver of the allegedly…