Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.504 – Release
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Terms Used In Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.504
- Claimant: means a person, including a decedent's estate, seeking or who has sought recovery of damages in a health care liability claim. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Health care: means any act or treatment performed or furnished, or that should have been performed or furnished, by any health care provider for, to, or on behalf of a patient during the patient's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code 74.001
The entry of an order for the payment of future damages by periodic payments constitutes a release of the health care liability claim filed by the claimant.