Section 31 Advance Payments

• Library: Damages 2012

Section 490.710, RSMo 2000, specifically provides that any payments made:

1. . . . of damages, predicated on possible tort liability, as an accommodation to an injured person, or on his behalf to others, or to the heirs at law or dependents of a deceased person, of medical expenses, loss of earnings and other actual out-of-pocket expenses, because of an injury, death claim, property loss or potential claim against any person [or the person’s insurer] . . . .

2. . . . shall constitute a credit and be...