Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Indiana

civil law-collections

What is the time limit which a lawyer can collect on a medical bill? There are cases in our court from 15 years ago that attorneys are still filing prosups on.


Asked on 1/17/08, 11:09 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Samuel Hasler Samuel Hasler

Re: civil law-collections

Medical bills sound like an account and the statute of limitations for an account is 6 years. However, that is not the time to finish collecting but to start collecting on an account. The idea is that a case cannot lie dormant and from what you write these cases are not dormant.

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Answered on 1/18/08, 6:13 am


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