Hospitalization Adjustment for CATEGORY VI. For Qualified Claims awarded 1 base point under CATEGORY VI, the National Settlement Administrator shall also award an additional ½ point for each night the Tort Trust Beneficiary was hospitalized at an acute care hospital after injection of one of the Three Contaminated MPA Lots and before April 30, 2013, up to a maximum of 3 points, provided that the Tort Trust Beneficiary submits to the National Settlement Administrator hospital records documenting the number of nights hospitalized at an acute care hospital after injection and before April 30, 2013. The National Settlement Administrator shall presume that each such hospitalization was the result of the MPA injection or complication(s) arising therefrom unless there is cause to believe that the hospitalization was the result of an unrelated event (i.e., auto accident, unrelated illness). For those hospitalizations for which there is reason to believe were the result of an unrelated event, proof deemed sufficient by the National Settlement Administrator that the hospitalization was the result of the MPA injection or complication(s) arising therefrom is required. If the Tort Trust Beneficiary’s proof of injection from one of the Three Contaminated MPA Lots does not indicate the exact date of injection from one of the Three Contaminated MPA Lots (i.e., the Tort Trust Beneficiary’s medical records state only that a steroid was administered on a specified date, but the Tort Trust Beneficiary’s name is listed on the Patient Lists), the National Settlement Administrator shall presume that the first injection from one of the Three Contaminated MPA Lots occurred on the first day after the first shipment of one of the Three Contaminated MPA Lots to the clinic, hospital or doctor’s office that injected the contaminated MPA into the Tort Trust Beneficiary.
