Baylor University Medical Center v. Travelers Insurance Co.

CARVER, Justice.

This appeal concerns the “Hospital Lien Statute,” Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 5506a (Vernon 1975). Baylor sued Travelers to enforce liens for services to a patient arising from an accident with a driver who was insured by Travelers. Travelers settled with the injured patient, but ignored Baylor’s liens. The trial court allowed Baylor’s lien for the first hospital admission but found it was discharged by payments from the patient and his insurer. Baylor appeals the denial of relief on the patient’s second, third, and fourth admissions on the ground that such admissions were…