Candler Hospital, Inc. v. Dent

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• plaintiff can prove medical expenses damages undiminished by any amount written off by defendant pursuant to Medicare regulations
• “[t]hus, plaintiff can recover from the jury all special damages provable, but cannot receive in judgment again what has already been paid by the defendant or on the defendant’s behalf by an insurer”
• to avoid double recovery, “plaintiff can recover from the jury all special damages provable, but cannot receive in judgment again what has already been paid by the defendant or on the defendant’s behalf by an insurer”
• “Georgia, as part of its common law and public policy, has always prohibited a plaintiff from a double recovery of damages; the plaintiff is entitled to only one recovery and satisfaction of damages, because such recovery and satisfaction is deemed to make the plaintiff whole.”
• collateral source evidence includes disability income

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).