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Originally Posted by ken0042
I'd call them and tell them you have a bank record of the debt being paid. If they press further there isn't much else they can do, as they only have 2 years to try legal action to enforce the debt.
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More could be said than this if you were writing a paper on the issue but this is pretty much all you need to know.
A creditor has 2 years in Alberta to commence an action from the time they knew or reasonably ought to have known they had a cause to have to sue to recover a debt.
Even if you didn't pay the bill, considering the invoice is almost 3 years old and probably somewhere says on its face payment is due in 30 days, they're out of time.
More importantly, you should scan the late sent bill and the letter demanding payment, and your bank statement (blanking out your other purchases) proving you paid, and shame the company via a facebook post.
I'm joking, of course, this is a clerical error. But if you want to make a point of what happened, I'd scan the documents mentioned and send them to the insurance company and ask if they have had other complaints of this contractor double dipping. Those are the people who approve contractors.
That's kind of mean though.