Statutory Modification of the Collateral Source Rule

Statutory law governing application of the collateral source rule is surveyed for the fifty states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The statutes are described using a classification scheme involving eight major substantive categories that have elements varying in number up to as many as seven distinct items. The classifications are presented in a comprehensive table that notes the number of jurisdictions in which each elemental modification appears. A second table presents the amassed information in a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction fashion.