Saturday, August 4, 2007

Trying to Pay the Bills

We still haven't received our pittance of 10k from the idiot's insurance company. (This is what we call the guy who caused all of this). They've been playing games with us for months because we refused to sign their forms, absolving the idiot from liability forever, and I wouldn't sign their non-disclosure. They finally re-wrote the terms, and we signed the paper at least two months ago. Now they say the check got "lost in the mail". It sure would help to pay down the bills. The other two guys signed immediately, thinking they would at least have that money for all the pain and suffering of this mess. Instead, their health insurance companies "subrogated" the money. What does "insurance" mean, if they get to pay themselves back out of your settlement?

Stu negotiated with Mercy Air, and we settled our bill with them for $4,000. He did a great job with that debt, they took less than half of what we owed them. Now if everyone else would be co-operative, maybe we could get these smaller bills out of the way.

We still haven't heard back from Palomar Hospital about our offer. Don't know if that's a good sign, or a bad one.

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