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Imagine this, Knee guy is gettiing froggy, apparently his medical insurance will only cover 50% if the ambulance ride. He looked up my wife on facebook and asked her to have me contact him. I called my insurance agent before hand to get the scoop on how to go forward. I get a hold of the guy, he starts telling me how his knee is bothering him now, he's on disablility and can't cover the other 50% etc. Sends me a 30 day final notice from the ambulance company for $686 dated 02/21/24. I looked up the ambulance company's payment policy and they have 90 day grace period before the unpaid bill goes to collections. To me that means niether he nor his insurance company has paid squat. Told him to send me a copy of the insurance EOB, the incident report and the original bill from the ambulance company. He said he'd "get back to me". I hate people a little more today than yesterday. Any insurance people or legal types, feel free to chime in and let me know if I'm in the wrong.
RE: Insurance
Health and Auto insurance will try to go after anyone they think they can hold responsible. When my son hurt his knee playing Little League a few years ago, the health insurance company called me asking where it happened and who owned the property. I told them it was a little league game and they were going to do what? Sue the little league for a player getting hurt in a game? Sue the city for allowing the Little League to play there? Sue the coach (me, btw) for some kind of negligence? They let it be.
Another time, my Jeep was damaged getting pulled out of a puddle I ran into that turned out to be closer to a very tiny lake (not one of my proudest moments). A friend extracted me and I went to the insurance on the off-chance they'd cover the damage. They wanted information on the guy who pulled me out - I told them that everything he did was at my behest and they'll either cover it with me taking 100% blame or they won't cover it - there's no one else to go after. They did end up coving it (thank you, USAA), but I learned a lesson there.
...and just to pile on; good on ya for helping and then helping again. If you find yourself in the Detroit area, I'll happily buy you a beer and a steak (or whatever you like).
I had to get a couple of these for camping and tooling around the neighborhood. Honda Monkeys. Modern take on the old Honda 70 bikes. lol
First bike I rode in the early 70's. And oh, to afford a CB360T in the mid 70's. Saw a few on campus to the lucky stiffs who had good enough part time jobs to buy one.
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