Acuar v. Letourneau

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• holding that under Virginia law plaintiff may present evidence of the full amount of his reasonable medical expenses without any reduction to reflect discounted amounts
• holding that under Virginia law plaintiff may present evidence of the full amount of his reasonable medical expenses without any reduction to reflect discounted amounts
• holding that plaintiff could present evidence of the full amount of medical expenses without any reduction for the amounts written off by healthcare providers
• recognizing that the proper focus of the collateral source rule is “whether a tort victim has received benefits from a collateral source that cannot be used to reduce the amount of damages owed by a tortfeasor”
• explaining that portions of medical expenses that health care providers wrote off constitute compensation from a source collateral to the tortfeasor
• explaining that \[t]he wrongdoer cannot reap the benefit of a contract for which the wrongdoer paid no compensation\

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