Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

Re: Chiropractic billed me after six years

I agree with parts of all three of my colleague's answers.

It is probably best, as pointed out by Mr. Roth, to have an attorney letter go out as an answer.

Re: Chiropractic billed me after six years

No. Refer the to your lawyer. The lawyer should be able to resolve this with a letter for less than $100.

Re: Chiropractic billed me after six years

The chiropractor is manipulating you on this. The time period to sue on a written contract to provide services is 4 years after the service was provided. It is not stayed by he minority. What the effect of her age has is that a minor under the age of 18 can not be held to a contract. So if she was the only one signing for the treatment their claim was barred at least 2 years ago and could not have been won anyway. If you signed, they are still two years too late to sue you and win.

Write thenm and point out they must know all of that so you are very disappointed that they try to get away with something like this. Also that you disagree on the number of visits they claim and the need to have so many treatments for a young girl [they heal rapidly and in general only a few treatments of any kind will reach maximum improvement quickly and then more treatments will do little if anything]. Tell them that unless you hear within 10business days to the contrary, you will assume they are dropping their claim. If they reject your position, you may have to turn it over to your insurance company [find out if it will have any effect on your premiums, etc.; if not let them handle it]. If your rates might go up, hire an inexpensive lawyer to write a legal, nasty letter to them.

Good luck.

Re: Chiropractic billed me after six years

It depends. Was this for a car collision? Have you settled the case with the other party? Did you have an attorney? Did he pay the chiropractor?

I think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered first. It may not be the answer you want to hear, but I think more questions need to be answered before anyone can give you a definitive answer.

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