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Resonable time for submitting medical billl's

Started by stupified, Jan 03, 2005, 08:50:54 PM

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stupified

My ex has filed with the courts a motion to get me to pay back medical bills. The court is in Las Vegas, Nevada.
She is trying to get me to pay bills that I have never seen from 1992-present. I belive that this was brought up because I filed a motion to terminate C/S. Which was granted by the judge to stop when my daughter turned 18. Which she did a week after the court date. My ex has never sent me one bill whatsoever since our divorce in 91. I did recive 3 bills recently in which I payed in full. There has got to be some time frame for submitting medical bills to me for payment. Insurance companies require 30 to 90 day's to submitt bills to them for payment or they wont pay them. Should'nt that hold true for myself ? I have heard if the Latches defence Can I use this defence since I have been so unjustfully blindsided by this all of the sudden 13 years worth of medical bills?


socrateaser

In the future, if you don't post according to the rules I will not respond.

Laches is a defense that requires you show (1) unreasonable delay and (2) unfair prejudice in the complaining party's pursuit of their case.

If you can prove that your insurance company would have paid the bills, if the bills were presented timely, then that would constitute a reasonable laches defense.

So, get something printed by the insurer explaning the coverage and if it shows what you say it shows, then you probably can avoid the payments -- unless, there is some specific NV law that prohibits your use of a laches defense, which is quite possible. However, I don't know NV law, so I can't comment further.