Healthcare Lien Resolution. In addition to the authority and responsibilities described in the MDL Court’s Order of Appointment, the NPC shall retain the Settlement Administrator to assist in the resolution of all Registered Claimants’ liens. CAE Counsel understands that as a condition precedent to the disbursement of settlement funds to any Registered Claimant, the Settlement Administrator shall be required to verify that any and all known and approved medical liens arising from or related to the Registered Claimant’s CAE Claim (“qualified healthcare liens”) have been or will be resolved and/or satisfied by the Registered Claimant, Registered Claimants’ Counsel, and/or the Settlement Administrator. Defendants bear no responsibility for the payment of any Registered Claimant’s qualified healthcare liens. The Parties further agree that the Registered Claimants will defend, hold harmless, and indemnify Defendants from any and all claims, actions, causes of action, demands, or judgments of any type whatsoever that have been, or that may be, brought by anyone, including, but not limited to, claims by heirs or others whose interests are represented or purport to be represented by the Registered Claimants asserting an interest in the sums paid hereunder and any action brought by any third party asserting any sort of medical lien, Medicare lien, Medicaid lien, Tricare lien, or other lien. The Settlement Administrator shall certify to Defendants the satisfaction of Registered Claimants qualified healthcare lien(s). Correspondingly, the Settlement Administrator shall establish proper holdbacks for qualified healthcare liens of individual Registered Claimants, thus enabling initial distribution of settlement funds subject to the lien holdback. Upon the negotiation and finalization of Registered Xxxxxxxx’s qualified healthcare liens, any remaining lien holdback shall be distributed to Registered Claimant. All qualified healthcare liens related to Registered Claimants’ use of CAE will be paid from the proceeds of the MSA and are Registered Claimants’ responsibility to pay. Nothing herein is intended to, nor should be construed as, creating a right of reimbursement for lienholders of obligations upon Registered Claimants or Registered Claimants’ Counsel where none would otherwise exist under applicable state or federal law. For the avoidance of doubt, the conditions precedent in this section are not conditions precedent to Defendant’s funding obligations into the QSF, but are only conditions prec...
