If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. They ran him over, and then charged him for doing it.
Needless to say, Hoesch is suing the company. His lawyer Travis Mayor says the ambulance bill is "among about $47,000 in medical expenses that Hoesch has racked up so far and another $50,000 of medical costs he expects in the future."
The lawsuit is also seeking $900,000 because he has suffered "decreased range of motion, reduced grip strength and other issues."
I hope he gets every stinking penny!
It’s Oregon.
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“They ran him over, and then charged him for doing it.”
Kinda like Portland Antifa/BLM torching an entire community only to have the Biden regime charge $12,000 in interest for emergency catastrophe funds they deduct from my social security checks every month.
Believe me, no one in Oregon gives a damn.
They ran him over, and then charged him for doing it.
The paramedics did not send the bill. They wrote a report as required. We don’t know what it says, do reports ever get read?
This is institutional operation at its finest.
We look here and think people and common sense exist.
“71-year-old William Hoesch”
Being that it’s a 71 year old who they hit, I won’t post the comment that was in my mind.
Sending a Fraudulent demand for Payment through the US Postal Service used to be a FELONY, it’s called Mail Fraud...
With my modest awareness of medical billing systems, I can see how the “system” would do this without it really being intentional on the part of the paramedics. Still, they should have had the awareness and the decency to have offered to the victim to pay any bills that came up.
We are told all the time that bicyclists have the same right to use the road as cars. As such, they have to obey the same rules of the road as cars. In this case, it seems to me the issue is who is at fault for the accident. If lights are on, the bicyclist has to give way to the ambulance.
When you, and this does include any employees, without question, damaged someone or something you take steps make it right immediately. This started out fine with the ambulance taking the person they injured to the hospital. You made a mistake, you applied what remedy you had to hand. So far, so good.
And then you went so wrong. You should have written off the cost of the ride and offered to pay his medical bills. This is why you have insurance.
This does not make you judgment proof but it does look nice in the papers and before the jury if you do get sued.
You made a mistake but all of that is forgivable in the public perception if you try to make it right. You even get bonus points for trying.
The way this shook out you look like jerks. And that is where punitive damages will arise.
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makes good business sense
Dems eating their own. The bicycle rider is most likely a liberal fool. No conservative I know rides a bicycle.
Around here, the fire department ambulances are out of network with the insurers.
Think twice before calling 911.
Well I can’t say how badly he was injured, however as a 67 year old, I can tell you that healing is much slower as you age.
He should send them a bill for $18 million and include his law firm on the mailing list.
But the response time was fantadtic!
Victim creation is an old business.
