Every individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, institution and governmental
unit, and every combination of any of the foregoing, operating a hospital in any county
in this State having a population in excess of three hundred twenty-five thousand
(325,000), according to the last preceding federal census, shall be entitled to a
lien for all reasonable charges for hospital care, treatment and maintenance of ill
or injured persons upon any and all causes of action, suits, claims, counterclaims
and demands accruing to the persons to whom such care, treatment or maintenance are
furnished or accruing to the legal representatives of such persons, and upon all judgments,
settlements and settlement agreements rendered or entered into by virtue thereof,
on account of illness or injuries giving rise to such causes of action, suits, claims,
counterclaims, demands, judgment, settlement or settlement agreement and which necessitated
or shall have necessitated such hospital care, treatment and maintenance.
(Ch. 27032, § 1, Laws 1951)
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