Collateral Source Rule Reform: HB 551 (1988).

Kentucky

Mandates that juries be advised of collateral source payments and subrogation of rights of collateral payers.  The statute allowing the admission of evidence of collateral source payments in personal injury actions violated the separation of powers provision of the State Constitution.  O’Bryan v. Hedgespeth, 892 S.W.2d 571 (Ky. 1995).

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