Liablity & Affidavit of Support

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dumbo207

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I signed an affidavit of support, sponsoring my parents to come and visit me in feb. 2003 My parents got their visas from chennai in march of last yr. but couldnt come to visit me till Dec. 03. Within 10 days of coming here, my dad develped some serious medical conditions and had to be hospitalised for close to 3 weeks, during that time the doctors here felt there was little they could do for him here and suggested to medically evacuate him back to india. We thought everything will be okay as we had medical insurance from a company here in the States, but looks like we were wrong. They worked with us on his evacuation, there was a 10,000$ limit on the policy which they paid, & we had to pay the rest. My dad went back okay, but after all this unfortunately he passed away this feb.

Now it is april-may 04 and we are receiving all of his medical bills, the insurance company is now dilly dallying, the other providers are getting impatient and have started to send threatning letters. The insurance co was okay to pay for the evacauation but now they are taking a long long time to decide to pay for the rest of the hospitalization, and looks like they are trying to say his condition was pre existing, so my concern here is about my liability, if they dont pay up, then can the hospital and other providers come after me. All the paper work at the hospital was signed by my dad or my mom. My mom is back home in india, all of my dads possesions are in india and it wont pay all of his bills which is close to 70,000 USD. I havent signed any paperwork except for the affidavit of support.

If anybody has any info about how to contest an insurance companys decision, please shed some light. I am not even sure what kind of an attorney should i look for ?
 
Yeah i did read the fine print, and it said anyting that happened in the past 6 mos is considered pre existing, but unfortunately the insurance co is looking at this differently i guess.
What kinda of a lawyer do you thing i should see, in the civil section of lawyers is there a specific speciality or since this is an affidavit of support issue, should i see an immigration attorney.

Also just by reading the instructions for the affidavit of support, it reads more like they are trying to make sure that no one becomes a burden to the STATE, in terms of SSI or medicare and stuff, i dont read anywhere about medical costs etc...i know it is there somewhere, but just playing devils advocate....
 
If you do still want to ask an immi lawyer, you might also try http://www.xsorbit6.com/users/immigration/ . There's a lawyer there who gives good free responses, without telling people that they need a paid consultation except when it seems like a reasonably complicated and time consuming issue.

Also, to get yourself in the right attitude about this, rent the movie "The Rainmaker". The insurance company might jerk you around without a lawyer, one experienced in health insurance litigation I'd think.

Good luck,
Joe
 
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