Teichman v. Community Hospital of Western Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the “right of subrogation” was “formulated to prevent unjust enrichment” and “is based upon principles of equity and natural justice” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[The insurer] was ... entitled to subrogation by operation of law once it made payment on behalf of its insured.”
• “CPLR 4545 applies to admissibility of evidence at trial and to judgments. The statute is silent as to pretrial settlements.”
• “As we have long recognized, an equitable lien ‘is dependent upon some agreement express or implied that there shall be a lien on specific property.’”
• equitable subrogation “formulated to prevent unjust enrichment”
• equitable subrogation “formulated to prevent unjust enrichment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).