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Can you sue a car insurance company for taking too long to pay medical bills?
Say a person is a passenger in a car accident and the other driver was at fault. The other driver's car insurance agrees to pay for medical bills, but doesn't offer much else. The passenger gets a lawyer.
While the passenger is waiting for their case to be handled, the ambulance company is hounding them for money that the passenger doesn't have. The passenger is worried that this will ruin their credit. The company won't put a lien on the case for their money; they want it now.
What can the passenger do? Can they sue the auto insurance company for not paying the bill and causing them to get bad credit? Can the insurance company pay the bill now, and settle for on other damages later?
7 Answers
- SueLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Are you sending the medical bills to your attorney or to the company? If you are sending them to the company and they agreed to pay, the payment should be made within 30 days. Did you exhaust the medical payments coverage on the policy? If so, they will no longer pay your medicals.
If you sent the medical bills to your attorney, he probably has not yet forwarded them to the company for payment. Call him & find out why & tell him that the providers are hounding you for payment and you want them forwarded to the company for payment TODAY.
You can sue the insurance company (anyone can sue anyone in the US) if you want but nothing will happen if they do not have the medical bills or if the medical coverage is exhausted.
Source(s): Insurance agent - calipink22Lv 51 decade ago
You cannot sue the insurance company. Insurance companies do not have to pay out any money towards medical bills until the medical portion of the claim is completely closed. Once you are released from a doctor then you'll start seeing the money from the insurance company. They won't settle the medical claim until you have been legally released from a medical practioner
Source(s): Insurance Agent - Anonymous1 decade ago
The passenger is responsible for that ambulance bill and he should pay so his credit isn't harmed. The insurance company will eventually reimburse him but they are known to be slow and often try to "starve" the person so they can avoid paying.
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- oklatomLv 71 decade ago
"The passenger gets a lawyer."
That explains why it's taking so long now. Any question the passenger has should be directed to the attorney he hired, not asked here.
- billranger3754Lv 41 decade ago
Contact a good attorney for a councletation & see what they say about the case.I
- 1 decade ago
Maybe You should google it at first hand ,nevertheless, if you like some direct resource ,here http://www.autoinsuranceideas.info/ should be helpful.
