The Civil Court in Dubai ruled that an inmate in a hospital was obligated to pay more than 486 thousand dirhams to the hospital, after he evaded paying it despite receiving the required medical services, attributing his position to the fact that he was the victim of a traffic accident, and requested the inclusion of the insurance company insuring the car that caused the accident as a party. In the lawsuit.
In detail, the administration of one of the hospitals demanded – through a complaint submitted to the Center for Friendly Settlement of Disputes, which was referred after an agreement could not be reached to the civil court – that its inmate be obligated to pay an amount of 486 thousand dirhams, and the legal interest is 5% from the due date until full payment.
She stated in her lawsuit that the defendant was referred to its emergency department, after being involved in a traffic accident, and after receiving the necessary care, he left the hospital without paying the treatment bill, which amounted to 486 thousand and 552 dirhams, noting that she requested to fulfill his obligations several times, but to no avail, to no avail. He prompted her to register a complaint against him and file this lawsuit, and she submitted a portfolio of documents that included a copy of the defendant’s medical report, a copy of the treatment bill, and other documents.
For his part, a legal representative of the defendant attended and submitted a memorandum of response to the hospital’s lawsuit, in which he requested the introduction of a new opponent, which is the insurance company, as it is the insured of the vehicle that caused the accident to which he was exposed, and is legally responsible for covering all damages resulting from this accident in insurance, including He has the right to claim the value of the bills claimed by the plaintiff (the hospital).
The defendant explained in the memorandum that he suffered many material and physical damages due to the injuries resulting from the accident, which required him to undergo treatment, and the plaintiff to demand from him the value of the medical bills. In the memorandum, he requested that the company be entered as an adversary, in accordance with the Civil Transactions Law, and that it be obligated to pay the fees and expenses with the hospital. He presented a portfolio of documents that included a copy of the report issued against the at-fault driver, and a certificate of a criminal ruling convicting the driver.
In turn, the court instructed the defendant to pay the fee for introducing a new adversary, which is the insurance company whose representative came to the court and submitted a memorandum requesting that the entry request not be accepted due to the presence of a previous claim in the same case, and to refer the dispute to the Insurance Committee for consideration along with the complaint submitted by the defendant, in the face of The company insisted on rejecting the application due to the illegality of its entry.
After examining the submissions of the three parties, the court addressed in its merits the defendant’s request to include the insurance company as an adversary in the lawsuit, and the subsidiary warranty claim in which he demands that the company pay what the hospital owes in the current lawsuit, and responded to him that he later submitted to it a request to dispute the warranty claim, and requested entry, which necessarily requires that his request be rejected in form.
Regarding the subject of the lawsuit, she explained that the invoices and statements of accounts prepared by the hospital to determine the value of treatment are not considered evidence of the patient or the person obligated to pay them, unless he acknowledges their validity explicitly or implicitly.
In the merits of its ruling, it stated that what is established in its opinion is that the defendant arrived at the hospital to receive the necessary treatment after being exposed to a traffic accident, received the necessary care and care, and left without paying the bill for the services he received, and owed an amount of 486 thousand and 552 dirhams.
What was established in the court was that he did not give up that amount, but rather implicitly acknowledged it, when he disputed with the insurance company and asked for it to be included as a discount to pay what was owed to him, and then the court ruled obliging him to pay the claimed amount, with a legal interest of 5% from the date of the claim until full payment. .
. The defendant requested that the insurance company insuring the car that caused the accident be included as a party in the lawsuit.
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