Jackavelli
Sarang Upso
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my daughter worked at a company couple of months ago. she had minor injury on job and i took her to emergency room. at emergency room the hosp explained that daughter's company has to pay the bill legally. when the bill came to me, it was unpaid by company. I called hosp and asked what's going on, cause it has my daughter's company as primary person to pay bill.
hosp says oh we never called her company for payment, we will call now.
few days later my daughter says, her company said they are not paying. I tell her they can say that but they have a legal obligation so just don't worry about it.
so today I get same bill, still unpaid. I call hosp, ok what now? hosp says we talked to company last month and they agreed to pay, but we have been sending certified letters and they are ignoring us.
I say ok fine, but if all three parties involved know that legally my daughters company has to pay bill, why are you sending it to me. hosp says because your daughter is a minor so we have to send bill to you.
so let me clarify, are you saying that by law my daughter's company has to pay this bill but as long as they simply ignore you that nothing will happen to them and I will have to pay bill? hosp says sorry, yes that is correct.
I ask, well what is next step in process to get daughter's company to pay bill? They say you can contact them. I say ok, your company has talked to them on phone and sent them several certified letters and I just told you that they told my daughter that they wasn't paying it.... but next legal step is for me to contact them???
also, my daughter no longer works there.
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ok, hopefully that wasnt too confusing. obviously I'm not going to pay a bill that everyone agrees is not mine legally to pay. At the same time if I wait for the process to play out, it looks like the bill will be send to my credit report while the people legally obligated to pay it will not be bothered in anyway.
1. Is this legal for the hosp to bill me when they have stated on 3 different occasions that legally this is my daughter's company bill? Even on the bill, it says Primary (daughter's company).
2. Shouldn't the hosp be doing somekind of legal thing against my daughter's company instead of just saying oh well they ignoring us, let's forget about them paying it?
2. Any advice?
hosp says oh we never called her company for payment, we will call now.
few days later my daughter says, her company said they are not paying. I tell her they can say that but they have a legal obligation so just don't worry about it.
so today I get same bill, still unpaid. I call hosp, ok what now? hosp says we talked to company last month and they agreed to pay, but we have been sending certified letters and they are ignoring us.
I say ok fine, but if all three parties involved know that legally my daughters company has to pay bill, why are you sending it to me. hosp says because your daughter is a minor so we have to send bill to you.
so let me clarify, are you saying that by law my daughter's company has to pay this bill but as long as they simply ignore you that nothing will happen to them and I will have to pay bill? hosp says sorry, yes that is correct.
I ask, well what is next step in process to get daughter's company to pay bill? They say you can contact them. I say ok, your company has talked to them on phone and sent them several certified letters and I just told you that they told my daughter that they wasn't paying it.... but next legal step is for me to contact them???
also, my daughter no longer works there.
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ok, hopefully that wasnt too confusing. obviously I'm not going to pay a bill that everyone agrees is not mine legally to pay. At the same time if I wait for the process to play out, it looks like the bill will be send to my credit report while the people legally obligated to pay it will not be bothered in anyway.
1. Is this legal for the hosp to bill me when they have stated on 3 different occasions that legally this is my daughter's company bill? Even on the bill, it says Primary (daughter's company).
2. Shouldn't the hosp be doing somekind of legal thing against my daughter's company instead of just saying oh well they ignoring us, let's forget about them paying it?
2. Any advice?