(1) Basic or added reparation benefits for medical expense are exempt from garnishment, attachment, execution, and any other process or claim, except upon a claim of a creditor who has provided products, services, or accommodations.
(2) Basic reparation benefits other than those for medical expense are exempt from garnishment, attachment, execution, and any other process or claim.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 304.39-260

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Medical expense: means reasonable charges incurred for reasonably needed products, services, and accommodations, including those for medical care, physical rehabilitation, rehabilitative occupational training, licensed ambulance services, and other remedial treatment and care. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020

Effective: July 1, 1975
History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 385, sec. 26, effective July 1, 1975.