Collateral Source Rule


Definition of "Collateral source rule"

Sigrid Garrick
  Keller Williams Rochester

Judicial rule of evidence under which no reduction in damages awarded by a court is allowed for bodily injury, sickness, illness, or accident merely because the plaintiff has other financial sources paying benefits such as health insurance and disability income insurance.


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